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Numbers that speak for themselves…Personalized evaluation of hospital-acquired infections
Traditional infection rates are complex to understand and not easily accessible to the medical staff. Before applying this leading practice, complex statistics (prevalence, incidence, e.g., 0.008 per 10,000 patient days) was information only accessible to managers....
Read MoreAn ADBD Form Which Includes the Order, the Request And the Results
To provide a high level of quality, analyses performed at the patient’s bedside, called Point-of-Care Testing (PCT), are carried out by laboratories and must meet strict standards. Problems that led to this project: • PCT analysis results which turned up in the...
Read MoreDaily Quality Monitoring at the CSSS Richelieu Yamaska
The aim of the project was to develop a culture of continuous quality improvement by motivating the Richelieu-Yamaska teams on a daily basis to optimize the patient experience. A number of factors played a part in the project’s implementation. Patient visits since...
Read MoreTransfer of Patients from the Intensive Care Unit to Other Care Units at the Sainte-Justine UHC
Transferring a patient from the Intensive Care (IC) Unit is recognized as being a period of higher risk. Studies have shown an increase in the incidence of adverse events in the days following a transfer from IC, a significant number of which can be avoided....
Read MoreComplete Prevention Program in Perinatal Grief in Primary Healthcare
Faced with the complex issue that is perinatal grief, in 2000 the CSSS de Vaudreuil-Soulanges set up the first complete prevention program in perinatal grief in primary healthcare. The program provides personalized follow-up for individuals, couples and families, as...
Read MoreA Network of Agents of Change Support the Transformations at the Sainte-Justine UHC
The Sainte-Justine UHC is now participating in an overall process of organizational transformation launched by the “Growing up Healthy” project. For the Sainte-Justine UHC, the project is an opportunity to completely overhaul its ways of doing things and introduce or...
Read MoreFoliewood and Maisons de Fous
After the success of its first Clé 56 series, the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal wanted to demystify another facet of the institution: life in its residential resources. In collaboration with director Alexandre Hamel, the production company Pixcom...
Read MoreMultidisciplinary care of the UMF-GMF Maizerets perinatal clientele
Since the creation of the family medicine group (GMF) within the Maizerets family medicine unit (UMF), the perinatal team has taken its MISSION to offer multidisciplinary services to heart. These high-quality, timely services, available from the start of pregnancy,...
Read MoreA Database for the Medicine Unit
The staff of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s Medicine Program has created an exhaustive database in which information on all internal medication used by the patients in four of its hospitals can be entered almost in real time. It includes detailed data on...
Read MoreEnd-of-life Support: More “humanitude”!
The Milieu de vie (living environment) program is above all a promise of life made to the 627 residents of four long-term care centres: To be a living environment where people can live according to their pace, preferences and needs. As much as possible like being at...
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