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To date, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives Campaign has met its goal of preventing 100,000
unnecessary deaths.
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In fact, the campaign exceeded its goal by more than 20 percent.(1)
Kicked off in 2005, the 100,000 Lives Campaign sought to eliminate 100,000 unnecessary deaths by enrolling 2,000 hospitals and getting them to implement some or all of six quality improvement changes:
- Prevent patients who are receiving medicines and fluids through central lines from developing infections
- Activate a Rapid Response Team
- Prevent patients from dying of heart attacks
- Prevent medication errors
- Prevent patients undergoing surgery from developing infections
- Prevent patients on ventilators from developing pneumonia
On June 14, 2006, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) reported that it had enlisted 3,000 hospitals (half again as many as expected), and that together they'd prevented an estimated 122,300 unnecessary deaths. According to Dr. Donald Berwick, President and CEO of IHI, "When we decided to launch the campaign, we didn't know if hospitals could take on another challenge. But the campaign has exceeded our highest expectations."
REFERENCES:
(1) "IHI Announces That Hospitals Participating in 100,000 Lives Campaign Have Saved an Estimated 122,300 Lives," The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org), June 14, 2006.
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Institute of Healthcare Improvement
5 million lives campaign
The 5 Million Lives Campaign is a voluntary initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years (December 2006 – December 2008).
- IHI 5 Million Lives Website
- Overview
- Participants
- Implement the Central Line Bundle
- IHI Getting Started Kit: Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia How-to Guide
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
