AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Hospital Engagement Networks participants make big strides in reducing patient harm and readmissions.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network





Hospital Engagement Networks participants make big strides in reducing patient harm and readmissions.

Vesely R. Hosp Health Netw. November 2014;88:26-31.

The Hospital Engagement Network initiative serves as an example of engaging health care organizations in alarge-scale collaborative effort to raise awareness of certain safety challenges and implement changes to address them. This magazine article reveals insights from hospitals involved in the initiative and reports results as compiled by its organizers, including reductions in early elective deliveries, pressure ulcers, central line–associated infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and readmissions.

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