Table 4.
number of first- and second-year projects
| 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 |
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.