Health-care initiative to test innovations for reducing HAIs

Patient mortality could be reduced by 17 percent and reliability of care could improve by nearly 13 percent if the not-for-profit hospitals participating in a nationwide collaborative attained the project’s quality goals, according to a recently released analysis.

QUEST is a voluntary, three-year project with 166 not-for-profit hospitals across 31 states designed to improve hospital performance levels. Using benchmarked data from the Premier health-care alliance’s clinical database, Premier and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) identified the main factors that lead to deaths, errors, and excessive costs.

The goals of QUEST are to improve the overall health of the patient population by reducing health-care acquired infections (HAIs), adverse events, and mortality; eliminating waste while ensuring appropriate care; and enhancing patient satisfaction with care.

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