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Using Collaboratives to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI): A National Implementation Program

Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference

On September 15, 2009, John R. Combes, MD, and Peter Pronovost, MD made this presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference. Select to access the PowerPoint® presentation (3,182 KB) (Plugin Software Help).

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Using Collaboratives to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI): <br />A National Implementation Program. Text Description is below the image.

Using Collaboratives to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI):
A National Implementation Program

Peter Pronovost, MD

John R. Combes, MD

 

Slide 2

Overview. Text Description is below the image.

Overview

  • Context and National Leadership
  • State Level Consortia
  • Sustainability
  • Q&A

 

Slide 3

National Context<br />and Leadership. Text Description is below the image.

National Context and Leadership

 

Slide 4

HHS Steering Committee for the Prevention of HAI. Text Description is below the image.

HHS Steering Committee for the Prevention of HAI

  • Charge: Develop an Action Plan to reduce, prevent, and ultimately eliminate HAIs
  • Plan will:
    • Establish national goals for reducing HAIs
    • Include short- and long-term benchmarks
    • Outline opportunities for collaboration with external stakeholders
    • Coordinate and leverage HHS resources to accelerate and maximize impact

 

Slide 5

Steering Committee <br />Working Group Structure. Text Description is below the image.

Steering Committee
Working Group Structure

HHS Steering Committee for the Prevention of HAI

  • Prevention and Implementation - Lead: CDC
  • Research l - Lead AHRQ
  • Information Systems and Technology - Co-Leads: OS/ONC & CDC
  • Incentives and Oversight - Co-Leads: CMS
  • Outreach and Messaging - Lead: OS / OPHS

 

Slide 6

HHS Action Plan. Text Description is below the image.

HHS Action Plan

  • Initial version issued in January 2009
  • Public comment received in February 2009
  • Revision finalized in June 2009
  • HHS Action Plan Website
    • Http://www.hhs.gov/ophs/initiatives/hai

 

Slide 7

Tier One Priorities. Text Description is below the image.

Tier One Priorities

  • HAI Priority Areas
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
    • Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection
    • Surgical Site Infection
    • Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
    • MRSA
    • Clostridium difficile
  • Implementation Focus
    • Hospitals

*Tier Two will address other types of healthcare facilities

 

Slide 8

AHA's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence. Text Description is below the image.

AHA's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence

  • Reduce Surgical Infections and Complications
  • Reduce Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI)
  • Reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
  • Reduce clostridium difficile infections (c diff)
  • Reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
  • Reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections
  • Reduce adverse drug events from high-hazard medications (e.g., anticoagulants, narcotics, opiates, insulin, sedatives)
  • Reduce pressure ulcers

 

Slide 9

State Consortia. Text Description is below the image.

State Consortia

 

Slide 10

Project Organization. Text Description is below the image.

Project Organization

  • Statewide effort coordinated by State Hospital Association including QIOs and State DOHs
  • Collaborative model
  • Standardized data collection tools and evidence
  • Local ICU modification of implementing interventions
  • Implementing interventions outside the ICU

 

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Participating States. Text Description is below the image.

Participating States

  • 10 states with at least 10 hospitals in 2008-2011
    • California
    • Colorado
    • Florida
    • Massachusetts
    • Nebraska
    • North Carolina
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania
    • Texas
    • Washington

 

Slide 12

CUSP EXPANSION. Text Description is below the image.

CUSP EXPANSION

  • All hospitals within the states are eligible
  • The following states are in the expansion:
    • Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, District of Columbia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming

 

Slide 13

JHU Funded State Projects. Text Description is below the image.

JHU Funded State Projects

  • Arkansas Hospital Association
  • Connecticut Hospital Association
  • Georgia Hospital Association
  • Healthcare Association of Hawaii
  • Illinois Hospital Association
  • Indiana Hospital Association
  • Minnesota Hospital Association
  • Missouri Hospital Association
  • New Hampshire Hospital Association
  • New Jersey Hospital Association
  • New Mexico Hospital Association
  • Healthcare Association of New York State
  • Oklahoma Hospital Association
  • Oregon Hospital Association
  • South Carolina Hospital Association
  • Tennessee Hospital Association
  • West Virginia Hospital Association
  • Wisconsin Hospital Association

 

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State Consortia Members. Text Description is below the image.

State Consortia Members

  • State hospital associations
  • QIOs
  • State health departments

May include

  • Payers
  • PSOs
  • Government officials
  • Business

 

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State Hospital Associations. Text Description is below the image.

State Hospital Associations

  • Serve as project coordinator for state consortia and participating hospitals
  • Facilitate conference calls and in-person meetings with HRET/JHU/MHA faculty
  • Oversee collection of CLABSI and safety culture data

 

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Role of QIOs. Text Description is below the image.

Role of QIOs

  • Part of state infrastructure-lend expertise and other resources to support initiative
  • Participate in conference calls, in-person meetings

 

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Building State Programs to Prevent HAIs. Text Description is below the image.

Building State Programs to Prevent HAIs

  • Project Description:
    • Create and expand state-based HAI prevention collaboratives
    • Build a public health HAI workforce in states
    • Enhance states abilities to assess where HAIs are occurring
  • Agency Lead: CDC
  • Collaborating Agencies: AHRQ and CMS
  • Funds Source & Amount: ARRA ($40 M)
  • CDC HAI Recovery Act Website
    • Http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/ra

 

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Consortia Organization. Text Description is below the image.

Consortia Organization

  • Lead Partner Role: State Hospital Association or affiliated state hospital association organization coordinating the state-wide collaborative.
  • Advisor role: will support the collaborative effort with infectious disease expertise.
  • Endorser role: will support the collaborative by promoting On the CUSP: Stop BSI and by providing cash or in-kind resources such as meeting space.

 

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NC Safer ICUs: Eliminating CLABSI Collaborative. Text Description is below the image.

NC Safer ICUs: Eliminating CLABSI Collaborative

Organization Name Organization Website Description of Organization Key Contact         Name / Title Key Contact Telephone Key Contact Email Collaborative Role
Duke Infection Control Outreach Network   (DICON) dicon.mc.duke.edu DICON is a private membership organization, established in 1997 by Duke physicians and nurses, that exists to advance efforts that improve quality of care and enhance patient safety while minimizing the costs associated with non-evidence based approaches to infection control. Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH  Assistant Professor Medicine 919-681-7483 deverick.anderson@duke.edu  Advisor Role Will support the collaborative effort with infectious disease expertise to provide guidance to the leadership team and collaborative hospitals.
North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program            (AHEC) www.med.unc.edu/ahec NC AHEC's mission is to meet the state's health and health workforce needs by providing educational programs in partnership with academic institutions, health care agencies, and other organizations committed to improving the health of the people of North Carolina. Rebecca Knight, MSN, MBA  Executive Director 336-832-7933 rebecca.knight@mosescone.com Endorser Role Will support the Collaborative by helping to spread the word and to support it meetings with venue (classroom) space as available.
The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence   (CCME) www2.thecarolinascenter.org The designated Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for NC.  Holds the federal and state contracts for Quality Improvement under CMS in NC.  Jill McArdle, RN, MSPH, CPHQ, PMP Director Federal Programs 919-380-9860 JMcArdle@ncqio.sdps.org Endorser Role Will support the Collaborative by helping to spread the word and will look at alignment with initiatives.
NC Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety (NC Quality Center) www.ncqualitycenter.org Created in 2004, the NC Quality Center, an initiative of the NC Hospital Association, funded by grants and donations, mission is to lead NC hospitals to become the safest and highest quality hospitals in the United States.    In addition the NC Quality Center is the federally designated Patient Safety Organization (PSO) for NC. Barb Edson,  RN, MBA, MHA    Director of Collaborative Learning 919-677-4121 bedson@ncha.org Lead Partner Role                 Lead role for NC Consortia Liaison between other NC organizations and National group.  Liaison between NC hospitals and NC and national consortia.   

 

Slide 20

Florida Consortium. Text Description is below the image.

Florida Consortium

 

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Evolving Consortia Roles. Text Description is below the image.

Evolving Consortia Roles

  • SHA
    • Recruitment, Marketing, Convening
  • QIO
    • Training, Field Agent
  • DOH
    • Technical Support, Analysis, Epidemiology

 

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Sustainability. Text Description is below the image.

Sustainability

 

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State Consortia & Sustainability. Text Description is below the image.

State Consortia & Sustainability

  • State consortia key to sustainability:
    • Train-the-trainer education to build capacity for future patient safety innovations, e.g., On the CUSP: Decubiti
    • Evaluation component to identify lessons, including critical success factors and barriers

 

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FLEXTRA Kit. Text Description is below the image.

FLEXTRA Kit

A model for the development of resource materials to support instructor-delivered in service training and faculty development

Contains:

  1. Instructors/Leader's Guide
  2. Camera ready materials for handouts
  3. Presentation materials (PowerPoint slides & videos)
  4. Evaluation instruments

Battles JB, Sheridan MM The FLEXTRA Kit: a model for instructor
support materials. J Biocommunication; 1989:6;3;1-13. 6

 

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CUSP FLEXTRA Kit. Text Description is below the image.

CUSP FLEXTRA Kit

  • Begins with all existing content as well as new content developed as part of the project
  • Identifies key concepts to be illustrated through video vignettes
  • Work with experts in CUSP, care in each selected hospital unit, and adult learning to develop storyboards and final scripts for the vignettes
  • The compilation of the video vignettes supervised by clinical experts
  • The embedding of the video content into DVD and CD format suitable for bundling with other training materials
  • The development and editing of the instructional guides, in collaboration with experts in both CUSP and adult learning concepts
  • The final bundling of all the resources into print and electronic formats that are:
    • Fully in the public domain
    • 508 compliant
    • Branded as an AHRQ product, but designed to be co-branded

 

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  1. Core team prepares State Coordinators to implement CUSP-CLABSI using a Professional Development Workshop that
    1. Familiarizes them with the project and the materials;
    2. Teaches them how to teach using these materials; and
    3. Teaches them how to facilitate others in implementing CUSP-CLABSI
  2. State Coordinators / core team prep are hospital teams of representatives to implement CUSP-CLABSI using a Train the Trainer method that
    1. Familiarizes them with the project and the materials;
    2. Teaches them how to teach using these materials; and
    3. Teaches them how to facilitate others in implementing CUSP-CLABSI
  3. Hospital representatives work with QI staff at their hospitals to implement CUSP-CLABSI, blanketing all relevant hospital staff in the relevant training and rolling out CUSP-CLABSI State Coordinators / core team provid follow up coaching calls to hospital representatives.

Emanuel,L (2009)

 

Slide 27

Conclusion. Text Description is below the image.

Conclusion

 

Slide 28

HAI Elimination Collaboration. Text Description is below the image.

HAI Elimination Collaboration

Policy Leadership
AHRQ CDC CMS AHA

Field Leadership
JHU MHA HRET NW

Implementation Leadership
SHA DOH QIO

 

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Summary. Text Description is below the image.

Summary

  • National Commitment
  • Strong Collaboration
    • Federal Agencies
    • Provider Organizations
    • State Stakeholders
  • Local Consortia Sustainability
    • Unit Based Culturally Driven Improvements

 

Slide 30

Questions. Text Description is below the image.

Questions

Current as of December 2009

Internet Citation:

Using Collaboratives to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI): A National Implementation Program. Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference (Text Version). December 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annualconf09/combes.htm

 
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