Reducing costs and improving patient recovery through a nurse-driven centralized spinal orthoses program on a post-surgical unit: A quality improvement initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An external vendor providing off-the-shelf spinal orthoses to inpatients created significant costs and barriers to quality care for spinal surgery patients. A nursing leadership team initiated a quality improvement project to reduce the cost of providing off-the-shelf spinal orthoses and improve the care provided to spinal patients.

Objective

To develop and evaluate a nursing-led process for providing off-the-shelf orthoses to spinal surgery patients and eliminate high costs.

Design

Quality improvement project evaluated as a retrospective interrupted time-series.

Setting

Post Surgery Inpatient Unit Level II Trauma Center in a United States hospital located in Florida.

Participants

Vendor Program: 134 patients; Centralized Program: 155 patients

SUBMITTER: Odom A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11252924 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature