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This month, the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign. IHI asserts that a remarkably few proven interventions, applied on a wide scale, can save 100,000 lives over the next 18 months and annually thereafter. The campaign aims to enroll thousands of hospitals and encourage them to commit to implement changes in patient care. Already surpassing its goal of enrolling 2,000 US hospitals, the 100,000 Lives Campaign is starting with six changes that have already been proven to prevent unnecessary death:
- Deploy rapid response teams at the first sign of patient decline.
- Deliver reliable, evidence-based care for acute myocardial infarction to prevent deaths from heart attack.
- Prevent adverse drug events by implementing medication reconciliation.
- Prevent central line infections by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps called the “Central Line Bundle.”
- Prevent surgical site infections by reliably delivering the correct perioperative antibiotics at the proper time.
- Prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia by implementing the “Ventilator Bundle” of care processes.
Hospitals that become involved can apply all or some of the above-listed interventions. IHI will routinely track and measure hospitals’ results which will “serve as a regular barometer for the campaign’s progress.” APM will join other leading US health care organizations to “disseminate improvement tools and provide supporting expertise throughout the health care system” to make health care safer and more effective.
More information on the campaign is located on IHI’s website. Please contact APM Policy Assistant Nicole V. Baptista at nbaptista@im.org to learn more about APM’s involvement in the 100,000 Lives Campaign.
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