title: Arresting death: saving 100,000 lives.
abstract: In January 2005, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement asked the nation's hospitals to voluntarily implement six specific care practices to prevent 100,000 unnecessary patient deaths by June 2006. Find out how they not only met, but exceeded, their goal.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meyers
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology