System's internal grant program leads to clinical innovations.
Internal grant program inspires caregivers to dream up terrific clinical studies that improve care and post savings to the bottom line. BJC Health System in St. Louis has a long list of success stories from its novel quality improvement program. The one featured in this issue resulted in more than $100,000 in annual savings systemwide after a small change was made in the way suction catheters are used on ventilator machines in the ICU.
D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D017046:Cost Savings; D003625:Data Collection; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D009936:Organizational Innovation / Q000191:economics*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000191:economics*