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Table 4 number of first- and second-year projects

From: Understanding organisational development, sustainability, and diffusion of innovations within hospitals participating in a multilevel quality collaborative

  

Year 1

  

Year 2

 

Hospital wide

Project

Projects

Mean

Range

Projects

Mean

Range

Year 1

Year 2

Pressure ulcers

20

2.5

2-5

55

6.9

0-20

1

3

Medication safety

17

2.3

1-4

95

11.9

0-23

 

3a

Operating theatre

8

1.0

0-0

5

0.6

0-2

  

Postoperative wound infections

10

1.3

1-2

30

3.8

1-13

 

1

Process redesign

26

3.3

1-5

55

6.9

2-16

 

2

Working without waiting lists

26

3.3

1-5

57

7.1

3-14

  

Total

107

2.3

1-5

297

6.2

0-23

1

9

  1. aFour medication safety projects were disseminated hospital-wide, but only three cases happened during the multilevel quality collaborative. Unnecessary intravenous antibiotics was spread in two hospitals; in one of them in the second year, in the other before the programme. Unnecessary blood transfusions was spread in the second year in two hospitals.