Measurement of Implementation Components and Contextual Factors in a Two-State Healthcare Quality Initiative to Reduce Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

摘要

Objective.To develop and field test an Implementation Assessment Tool for assessing progress of hospital Units in implementing improvements for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in a two-state collaborative, including data on actions implemented by participating teams and contextual factors that may influence their efforts. Using the data collected, learn how implementation actions can be improved, and analyze effects of implementation progress on outcome measures.