The Institute for Healthcare Improvement-NeuroPoint Alliance collaboration to decrease length of stay and readmission after lumbar spine fusion: using national registries to design quality improvement protocols.

CONCLUSIONS: The NPA-IHI program showed that preoperative discharge planning and postdischarge calls have the potential to reduce LOS and improve satisfaction after elective lumbar fusion. It is our hope that neurosurgical providers can recognize how registries can be used to both develop and implement a QI tool and appreciate the importance of QI implementation as a separate process from data collection/analysis.
PMID: 32823267 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - August 20, 2020 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Zuckerman SL, Devin CJ, Rossi V, Chotai S, Dyer EH, Knightly JJ, Potts EA, Foley KT, Bisson EF, Glassman SD, Mummaneni PV, Bydon M, Asher AL Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research