Industry Partner Showcase

Improving Vascular Access Outcomes Using a Novel Quality Improvement Strategy

Speaker(s)

• JS

  Jennifer Sanguinet, MBA-HCM, BSIS, CIC, FAPIC

  Director
  Infection Prevention Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital

Considering the charge that improving the quality of patient care is a fundamental obligation of health care providers, our institution assembled a multi-disciplinary team of stakeholders to evaluate vascular access products, practices, and utilization patterns with the primary aim of determining and addressing device-associated complication rates.

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the development and implementation of a novel quality improvement strategy, called P5 Methodology, which was developed to meet these objectives. The core pillars of the methodology include Promise, People, Process, Policy/Procedure and Products. Each pillar will be described from needs assessment through development of outcome measures, and implementation of interventions. The observational, retrospective clinical outcomes data resulting from the implementation of the P5 Methodology will be presented.

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Learning Objectives:

• Describe the rationale for the development of a quality improvement process focused specifically on vascular access outcomes.
• Describe the core pillars of the P5 Methodology.
• Describe the process for development and implementation of the P5 methodology.
• Describe outcomes achieved as a result of implementation of the P5 methodology.