Document Type
A3
Publication Date
10-2018
Institution/Department
Critical Care Medicine, Nursing, Maine Medical Center
MeSH Headings
root cause analysis, intensive care, ICU, patient care, critical patient care, caregivers, confusion, goals, retrospective cost benefit analysis
Abstract
IMPROVING REVENUE CAPTURE AND PATIENT SAEFTY IN AN INTENSIVE CARE SETTING
Materials management department is responsible for restocking chargeable supplies in an intensive care unit (ICU) at an academic tertiary medical center. Staff confusion as to what items were considered chargeable often led to low supply par levels resulting in delays of critical patient care.
Using baseline metrics, a team of caregivers created several performance improvement goals to increase nursing compliance with appropriate supply charging. The results of a root cause analysis spearheaded the development of a KPI that encompassed staff education, lost charge tracking and charge supply labeling.
Post KPI inception, a significant increase in compliance was realized. The next step is to complete a two year retrospective cost benefit analysis to determine lost revenue and compare that to the cost of three automated
Recommended Citation
Stankiewicz, Natasha; Lewis, Laura; Archibald, Jonathan; Parker, Mark; Nayak, Suneela; Tyzik, Stephen; Hanselman, Ruth; and Sparks, Amy, "Improving Revenue Capture and Patient Safety in an ICU Setting" (2018). Operations Transformation. 10.
https://knowledgeconnection.mainehealth.org/opex/10
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