title: Promoting quality patient care--reducing inpatient mortality.
abstract: In 2001, St Joseph Hospital in Augusta, Ga, reorganized its patient safety initiatives to improve patient care outcomes. By 2004, we decided to focus the many clinical projects toward one goal, reducing inpatient mortality. One year later, raw mortality decreased by 29% and severity-adjusted mortality decreased by 25.5%.
authors.affiliation: St Joseph Hospital, Augusta, GA 30904, USA. elainec@stjoshosp.org
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Comeau
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adkinson
mesh_terms: D005845:Georgia; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care