How else can a hospital or system track its progress?
The best and most accurate way to track your progress in implementing the Campaign interventions is by using “intervention-level measures”—measures of the processes or outcomes expected to be directly affected by your intervention work. Compared to looking at overall mortality rates, using these intervention-level measures will give you a much better handle on what progress is actually being made on the front lines. IHI has provided a set of recommended intervention-level measures, which you can find as “Measure Information Forms” (or MIFs) at the bottom of the Materials tab in the Campaign area of ihi.org, organized by intervention. When deciding which intervention measures to use, we recommend that you start by looking at these measures. Hospitals may also be able to estimate lives saved from changes in these intervention-level measures. For example, if you are able to reduce your VAP rate by a certain amount, and you know that a patient’s risk of death increases by a certain amount
