Journal
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Volume 71, Issue 9, Pages 1692-1701Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.041
Keywords
USA; Quality improvement; Hospital; Patient safety; Infection prevention; Qualitative research
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Patient safety is a healthcare priority worldwide with most hospitals engaging in activities to improve care quality, safety and outcomes Despite these efforts we have limited understanding of why quality improvement efforts are successful in some hospitals and not others Using data collected as part of a multi-center study we closely examined quality improvement efforts and the implementation of recommended practices to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in US hospitals We compare and contrast the experiences among hospitals to better understand how and why certain hospitals were more successful with practice implementation when taking into consideration specific aspects of the organizational context This study reveals that among a number of hospitals that focused on implementing practices to prevent CLABSI, the experience and outcomes varied considerably despite using similar implementation strategies Moreover, our findings provide important insights about how and why different quality improvement strategies might perform across organizations with differing contextual characteristics Published by Elsevier Ltd
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