Obtaining Institutional Support

Your team needs support from your medical center leadership to enhance your improvement effort. Getting institutional buy-in and administrative support is essential. Although you may not yet have robust data, the rationale for directing resources toward glycemic control efforts can be spelled out. Ideally, you should use some pilot data from your own institution on iatrogenic hypoglycemia, insulin usage patterns, and glycemic control to enhance your chances of success. Given the financial resources required to support a glycemic control effort, you should probably skip ahead to the Track Performance section: The Business Case for Glycemic Control, so you can argue that glycemic control efforts can be cost effective. A direct line to administrative support for your effort, either by a direct reporting structure or by involving a senior administrator in the team, should be in place before you go any farther.

TASK

Meet with members of your administration and have prepared "talking points," and, ideally, some preliminary information you've collected demonstrating the need for the administration's attention. Review the talking points to gain institutional support and the information in The Business Case for Glycemic Control to help you convince your administrative leaders of the importance of supporting a program to improve glycemic control and reduce the incidence of hypoglycemia in the hospital. Include local data you have collected as you see appropriate, perhaps using ideas for early data collection.

View Talking Points to Gain Institutional Support