Slips, Trips, and Falls: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

ABSTRACT: Employee safety and the reduction of Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred are a focus of the Solutions for Patient Safety Network. One significant contributor to the Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred rate at Children's National Hospital is employee slips, trips, or falls.

Methods

Children's National Hospital implemented a multidisciplinary quality improvement with executive leadership vision and support. We implemented quality techniques (including Key Driver Diagrams, Pareto Charts, and continuous Plan-Do-Study-Act) and designed novel Environmental Services interventions.

Results

Children's National Hospital achieved a 44.3% reduction in monthly average reported slips, trips, or fall events from baseline and sustained over a 2-year study period.

Conclusion

A lead

SUBMITTER: Peir GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970105 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature