How will IHI measure progress towards the goal of 5 million avoided incidents of harm?
Our current plan is to measure the change in rate of harm over time — from a baseline period in 2006 to the conclusion of the Campaign in December 2008 — within a representative sample of Campaign hospitals. Measurement of harm rate will likely be done by chart review and will likely be performed by experienced analysts not affiliated with the hospitals in the sample. The change in harm rate measured in sample hospitals would be applied to the patient volume of the Campaign, allowing a calculation of both the total expected harm (based on baseline period harm rates) and total actual harm during the Campaign period. The difference between the actual and expected harm will give the estimate of total “harms avoided.
Our current plan is to measure the change in rate of harm over time — from a baseline period in 2006 to the conclusion of the Campaign in December 2008 — within a representative sample of Campaign hospitals. Measurement of harm rate will likely be done by chart review and will likely be performed by experienced analysts not affiliated with the hospitals in the sample. The change in harm rate measured in sample hospitals would be applied to the patient volume of the Campaign, allowing a calculation of both the total expected harm (based on baseline period harm rates) and total actual harm during the Campaign period.
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