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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2006;296:269-270.

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An initiative to improve patient care prevented about 122 300 avoidable hospital deaths over an 18-month period, campaign leaders said.

The initiative, the "100 000 Lives Campaign," helped avert patient death by instituting 6 evidence-based interventions among 3000 hospitals, representing an estimated 75% of all US hospital beds, explained Donald Berwick, MD, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement at the International Summit on Redesigning Hospital Care in Atlanta last month. The institute, based in Cambridge, Mass, launched the campaign in December 2004.

Using 6 evidence-based interventions, health care professionals at more than 3000 care sites in the United States averted more than 100 000 patient deaths over an 18-month period.

The campaign is a response to critics who have questioned whether the health care system had made any significant changes to improve quality of care and outcomes since an expert panel convened by the National Academies’ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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