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Exchange Information Implementation Guide Professional Development Resource Room Project Team Main Resource Room Home Venous Thromboembolism Resource Room

Spread Improvement

Spreading improvement to other units

Spreading successful improvements to other areas of the hospital requires that the new process refined in the pilot get woven into the wider fabric of every day clinical work.

The IHI published a brief but very useful White Paper, “A Framework for Spread.”30 We highly recommend this resource, but summarize the field-tested themes here:

  • Committed organizational leadership is crucial
  • Begin planning for spread as early as possible
  • Be specific in the aims of spread (who, what, where, when)
  • Leverage existing infrastructure and identify infrastructure gaps
  • Execute the spread plan but learn and revise as you go

Just as for the pilot, let the key principles for layering effective QI interventions guide your efforts to spread the improvement.


 

 

 

Venous Thromboembolism Resource Room Project Team
This resource room is sponsored in part by a non-educational sponsorship from sanofi-aventis US, LLC

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The Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Resource Room is an online resource for visitors to the Society of Hospital Medicine’s website. All content and links have been reviewed by the VTE Resource Room Project Team, however the Society of Hospital Medicine does not exercise any editorial control over content associated with the external links that have been made available via this website.

The contributions of Dr. Maynard and his UCSD collaborators in the development of the SHM VTE Prevention Resource Room and the VTE Prevention Implementation Guide were supported by grant number 1U18HS015826-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The contents of this product are solely the responsibility of Dr. Maynard and the SHM VTE Resource Room team, and do not necessarily represent the official view of or imply endorsement by AHRQ or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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