title: NICU care redesigned using outcomes chain approach to analyzing, using data.
abstract: Outcomes chain in practice: Hospital saves an astounding $90,000 in costs per preterm CV patient. When researchers at an IHC hospital found they could change the way preterm babies are ventilated and avoid the lung injuries caused by conventional ventilation, they drilled down into the process of caring for these patients and found hundreds of other opportunities for change. Mini-teams handled individual processes, flow-charting them, asking how and why at each step, gathering data, making changes, and measuring outcomes.
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014589:Utah; D014600:Utilization Review