title: The Quality Cup winner: Fletcher Allen Health Care's early extubation team.
abstract: Many organizations are looking for ways to reduce the cost and improve the quality of open-heart surgery. Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont used a total quality management approach to do just that. The result was a dramatic improvement in outcomes. Fletcher Allen won the 1994 USA Today Quality Cup for its efforts.
authors.affiliation: Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blondin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schriefer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shinozaki
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Calhoun
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leavitt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Deane
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: LaChaunce
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014707:Vermont