title: 100,000 Lives campaign exceeds goals and saves lives.
abstract: U.S. hospitals taking part in an unprecedented 18-month effort to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths by improving patient care have exceeded their goal, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced in June. Hospitals that participated in the 100,000 Lives campaign have collectively prevented an estimated 122,300 avoidable deaths.
mesh_terms: D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology