Introduction to the QI Learning Institute: Slide Presentation

NQF Endorsed QIs: Standards of Hospital Care: Additional Priorities 2007

Patient Safety, Adult

• Accidental puncture or laceration
• Death in low mortality DRGs
• Iatrogenic pneumothorax
• Death among surgical inpatients with serious, treatable complications
• Bilateral cardiac catheterization rate
• Congestive heart failure mortality
• Hip fracture mortality rate
• Transfusion reaction, age 18 years and older
• Blood cultures performed within 24 hours prior to or 24 hours after hospital arrival for patients who were transferred or admitted to ICU within 24 hours of hospital arrival (Not QIs)

Surgery and Anesthesia

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm volume
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair mortality rate
• Esophageal resection mortality rate
• Esophageal resection volume
• Incidental appendectomy in the elderly rate
• Pancreatic resection mortality rate
• Pancreatic resection volume
• Postoperative wound dehiscence, age under 18 years
• Postoperative wound dehiscence, 18 years and older
• Foreign body left after procedure, age under 18 years
• Foreign body left in during procedure, 18 years and older
• Failure to rescue In-hospital Mortality (Not QIs)
• Failure to rescue 30-day mortality (Not QIs)