IHI's 2008 Progress Report Proposes "New Rules" for Quality Care, Safety

If you've not yet had the chance to review the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) 2008 Progress Report, it's worth your while. The report--titled "Quality Rules!"--is extremely thoughtful in setting out 10 "new rules" (as compared to the old rules).

New rules include more continuity, collaboration, control and safety as a system priority (vs. an individual responsibility), transparency as necessary (vs. secrecy), along with giving providers better tools and more efficient systems.

Speaking of IHI, on the left-hand sidebar, we feature several other helpful Patient Safety resources provides by the organization including practices for improving hand hygiene, a hand hygiene improvement report and their central line bundle.

Download the Progress Report (PDF) here. Full IHI website here.