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The 1,000,000 lives campaign

Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Correspondence to:
Dr F P Rivara
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 91804, USA; fpr@u.washington.edu

Accepted 28 August 2005

Keywords: campaigns; preventable deaths

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The Institute of Medicine’s report "Crossing the Quality Chasm" estimated that as many as 98,000 lives are lost each year in hospitals in the United States due to medical errors.¹ In response, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has developed an ambitious "100,000 Lives" campaign, aimed at saving 100,000 lives each year in the US.² The IHI is a non-profit organization that is seeking to improve health by "advancing the quality and value of healthcare". The IHI is enlisting 2000 hospitals across the US to participate in this campaign by instituting six evidenced based strategies to decrease hospital deaths: (1) rapid response teams to reverse signs of acute cardiorespiratory decline in patients and prevent cardiorespiratory arrests; (2) evidence based care for patients with acute myocardial infarctions; (3) medication reconciliation to prevent adverse drug effects; (4) prevention of central line infections through five simple interventions for care of central . . . [Full text of this article]

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