Module 5: Run Chart Assignment

You work in a 350-bed hospital and have been working on a quality improvement project to reduce AECOPD 30-day hospital admission rates. You pulled 250 patient records and determined that your hospital has a 38% AECOPD 30-day readmission rate, with 28% returning to the ED within 7 days. Of the patients readmitted, nearly 20% experienced a near-fatal outcome requiring admission to the ICU and requiring mechanical ventilation.

The goal is to reduce AECOPD 30-day readmission rates to 25% over 6 months and then under 20% in the following 6 months, with the long-term goal to reduce AECCOPD 30-day readmission rates to 5% over the following 12 months.

Through planning & research, your team developed a Risk Stratification Protocol scale to predict AECOPD 30-day readmission risk and then implement any current patient-specific readmission reduction strategies during the first 6 months. The development of a AECOPD Care Bundle Protocol to address COPD diagnosis, emergency care, discharge care, and follow-up/referral care was implemented for the following 6 months.

Use the following data to input into the linked Excel spreadsheet below to produce a run chart: