Quality
5 Effective Quality Improvement Initiatives for Children's Health
Children’s hospitals share successful QI programs others can replicate to improve care and outcomes.
SCOPE Dialysis Collaborative
The Standardizing Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESKD (SCOPE) Collaborative helps dialysis centers minimize dialysis-related infections in children and adolescents on peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.
Decreasing Behavioral Health Unit Readmissions
Dayton Children's Hospital decreased its seven-day behavioral health unit readmission rate by nearly 50%.
How Sitting Down Improves Clinical Outcomes
Bedside nurses focused on communication with families, leading to improved quality and patient experience scores.
Predicting Hospital-Acquired Conditions Using EMR Data
Riley Children’s Health reduced CLABSIs by 35% and HAPIs by 56% using a predictive dashboard.
Improving Pediatric Heart Transplantation With Artificial Intelligence
An open-source machine learning technique could reduce waitlist mortality rates and unused donor organs.
How to Launch a Multi-Year, Multi-Site Quality Improvement Collaborative
A sepsis collaborative standardized measurement, built effective teams, and shared findings across 66 member hospitals and health systems — reducing mortality by half.
Advancing Solutions in Children's Health
Children's hospital leaders convened at the Transforming Quality Conference to learn, network, and collaborate on care and system improvements that impact child health outcomes.
Creating a Universal Standard for Lab Test Names
A multidisciplinary collaborative works to eliminate confusion, errors, and waste from the laboratory test ordering process.
How Children's Hospitals Are Improving the Continuum of Care
Explore how Children’s Hospital Association and our members are improving the continuum of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes and experiences.