title: System's internal grant program leads to clinical innovations.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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*