Quality Update

April 2004 • Issue 2

A Newsletter from The Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care

			Conversation with Stephanie Poe The nursing clinical quality coordinator discusses embracing evidence-based guidelines.

			The Director's Chair: Invitation to Exciting Ideas By Richard O. Davis, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

			Spotlight: The Roots of Danger On the many who overcame barriers to cut catheter-related bloodstream infection rates.

			Points from Pronovost: Embracing Family in Patient Care Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director of the Center for Innovation, and Christine Holzmueller, BLA, tell how a devoted wife and a determined nurse pulled together to teach a lesson of a lifetime.

DEPARTMENTS

>	FEATURED STORIES • In a Manner of Speaking • Quality on Parade
>	SHORT CUTS • Picture to the World is a Click Away • Going South of the Border
>	TOOLS • The Paper Chase
>	• Dispatches from the Front Lines
>	• What an Idea!