Missouri Baptist Medical Center

About: Missouri Baptist Medical Center is a healthcare organization based out in St Louis, Missouri, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Aortic dissection & Aorta. The organization has 156 authors who have published 300 publications receiving 10681 citations. The organization is also known as: MoBap.

‘Global Trigger Tool’ Shows That Adverse Events In Hospitals May Be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured

Abstract: Identification and measurement of adverse medical events is central to patient safety, forming a foundation for accountability, prioritizing problems to work on, generating ideas for safer care, and testing which interventions work. We compared three methods to detect adverse events in hospitalized patients, using the same patient sample set from three leading hospitals. We found that the adverse event detection methods commonly used to track patient safety in the United States today—voluntary reporting and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators—fared very poorly compared to other methods and missed 90 percent of the adverse events. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Global Trigger Tool found at least ten times more confirmed, serious events than these other methods. Overall, adverse events occurred in one-third of hospital admissions. Reliance on voluntary reporting and the Patient Safety Indicators could produce misleading conclusions about the current safety of care in the US health care system and misdirect efforts to improve patient safety.

Outcome and attributable cost of ventilator-associated pneumonia among intensive care unit patients in a suburban medical center.

Abstract: ObjectiveTo determine the attributable cost of ventilator-associated pneumonia from a hospital-based cost perspective, after adjusting for potential confounders.DesignPatients admitted between January 19, 1998, and December 31, 1999, were followed prospectively for the occurrence of ventilator-assoc

Attributable cost of catheter-associated bloodstream infections among intensive care patients in a nonteaching hospital

Abstract: Objective:To determine the attributable cost and length of stay of intensive care unit (ICU)–acquired, catheter-associated bloodstream infections from a hospital-based cost perspective, after adjusting for potential confounders.Design:Patients admitted to the ICU between January 19, 1998, and July 3