Our Center's main areas of project activity are:
· The Emergency Room
· Departments of Medicine
· Departments of Surgery
· Obstetrics and Gynecology
· Radiology
· Cross-institutional projects
· Projects involving quality outside Hadassah, health promotion or decision analysis
Our most recently completed and current projects at Hadassah include:
· Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections: 62% Rate Reduction After an Intervention
· Monitoring of Surgical Infections
· Is Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in Non-ICU Admission Wards Optimal Under Existing Circumstances?
· Quality of Elective Inguinal Hernia Repair
· Patient Satisfaction with Breast Reconstruction: Does it Correlate with Objective Outcomes?
· Quality of Care in Penetrating Keratoplasty Procedures
· Quality of Lasik Procedure
· Quality of Snoring Management
· Quality of Emergency Medicine
The findings of several of our projects were presented at the Hadassah Quarterly Board Meeting on September 14, 2008.
September 2008 Presentation to Board
Other activities of our Center include workshops, presentations and publications at national and international forums.
At the 2007 meeting of the Israeli Society for Quality in Medicine, five abstracts and eight posters were presented. Our Center was awarded first and second place for two of our posters.
In June, 2006, our Center conducted a seminar on the patients' right law and end-of-life decision-making. The following November, we offered a two-week course on palliative care.
Coumadin instruction kits for both patients and their family physicians, the first of its kind in Israel, was developed by our Center. Hadassah's patients are responding enthusiastically to the new coumadin kits and Israel's medical community has been positively impressed. Some of the HMOs, such as Leumit, have started using the kits for their patients.
In conclusion, although our Center consists of a small team, we have conducted and continue to conduct many diverse projects in our attempt to make healthcare at Hadassah more patient-centered, more evidence-based and more system-minded. Increasing accountability by department heads for quality and safety may be a key to further successes in the field.
We also serve as advisors to students from the Faculty of Medicine on projects involving clinical quality.
More information on our Center and its projects and activities, both in English and in Hebrew, can be found in the various sections of this website.