Timely Data for Targeted Quality Improvement Interventions: Use of a Visual Analytics Dashboard for Bronchiolitis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Standard methods for obtaining data may delay quality improvement (QI) interventions including for bronchiolitis, a common cause of childhood hospitalization. OBJECTIVE:To describe the use of a dashboard in the context of a multifaceted QI intervention aimed at reducing the use of chest radiographs, bronchodilators, antibiotics, steroids, and viral testing in patients with bronchiolitis. METHODS:This QI initiative took place at Children's Minnesota, a large, not-for-profit children's health care organization. A multidisciplinary bronchiolitis workgroup developed a local clinical guideline and order-set. Delays in obtaining baseline data prompted a pediatric hospitalist and information technology specialist to modify a vendor's dashboard to display data related to bronchiolitis g

SUBMITTER: Hester G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6402943 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature