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Below are summaries of the NNECDSG's quality improvement intiatives for 2008-09. The goal of these initiatives is to accelerate the rate of improvement of clinical care by developing focused strategies targeted at high leverage areas. The documents below are working drafts that will be updated as teams at the centers gain more knowledge and begin to implement changes.

Quality Improvement Initiatives Develop a Customized Informed Consent Document to Improve Decision Quality 1 Develop a System to Improve a Patient's Readiness for Revascularization 2 Redesign Cardiac Surgery to Reduce Neurological Injury 3 Reduce the Use of Red Blood Cell Transfusions 4 Reduce the Incidence of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy 5 Reduce the Incidence of Access Site Injury and Bleeding Complications 6 Monitor and Improve the Appropriateness of PCI 7 Improve the Treatment of STEMI Patients 8   To open a pdf you should have Adobe Reader 5.0 or greater. If you do not, you can download it free at the following website --- http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html