Category Archives: Blog
4 Ways Hospitals Can Prevent Patient Falls
Patient falls are expensive, time-consuming and injurious. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, approximately 700,000 to 1 million hospitalized patients — about 3% of all hospitalized Americans — fall each year. More than ...
Preventing Ventilator-Associated Events
The existence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, has long been a topic of controversial discussion. Diagnosing VAP is difficult because the radiologic and clinical signs can be associated with a variety of respiratory infections as well as o...
The ABCs of Hand Hygiene: C is for Craziness
Why don’t healthcare providers clean their hands every time they should? In our experience, it comes down to the “ABCs”: Awareness Busyness Craziness We’ve already covered Awareness and Busyness, and will discuss Craziness today. There can be...
The ABCs of Hand Hygiene: B is for Busyness
Why don’t healthcare providers clean their hands every time they should? In our experience, it comes down to the “ABCs”: Awareness Busyness Craziness We covered Awareness last week and will discuss Busyness today. Simply put, the busier a clini...
The ABCs of Hand Hygiene: A is for Awareness
For the most part, healthcare providers understand the importance of hand hygiene. Still, they tend to clean their hands only about 40% of the times they should[1]. Why is this? In our experience, it comes down to the “ABCs”: We’ll cover Awaren...
The Power of Individual Data
Individual hand hygiene performance within a hospital unit can vary widely. The Performance Bubble Plots™ below – including real data – show this. Each bubble represents a healthcare provider on a unit. The size of the bubble indicates the numb...
The 4 Data Points You Need to Reduce HAIs
There are four data points that hospitals need to monitor and leverage in order to improve hand hygiene and reduce HAIs. Learn how you can leverage this data in your hospital. >>>Download the Whitepaper...
Are Your Sickest Patients Being Visited Regularly?
Typically, nurses try to visit each of their patients at least once an hour. This is important to ensure patients are getting the care they need, to reduce fall risks and pressure ulcers, etc. It’s logical to assume that clinicians would visit the ...
Decrease Patient Falls by Measuring Nurse Rounding
Patient falls are a serious problem, affecting between 700,000 and 1 million patients per year in American hospitals.[1] One of the primary reasons patients fall out of bed is that they haven’t been visited by a nurse in a while and they attempt to...
Reduce Shift Fatigue by Measuring Patient Interactions
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Does the frequency of their visits change throughout their shift? Until recently, it has been impossible to know when specific clinicians were visiting a parti...