An Innovative Academic Clinical Partnership

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) evaluates quality and patient safety (QPS) metrics and goals for the hospital enterprise and at each hospital site. The hospital QPS committee lead an initiative focused on C-difficile (C-diff) with a multifaceted strategy to meet the standardized infection ratio (SIR) goals for 2021. As part of this program, an innovative practice partnership between NYPH and Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSON) emerged to create an audit program while providing students first-hand experience with hospital-based quality improvement initiatives.
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