Promoting and facilitating high quality care standards for dialysis and kidney transplant patients
in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Main phone (816) 880-9990
Patient toll free (800) 444-9965
Main fax (816) 880-9088
Data fax (816) 880-1775
7505 NW Tiffany Springs Pky. Suite 230 Kansas City, MO 64153
Quality Improvement
- Albumin
- Anemia Management
- Catheter Reduction
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Clinical Performance CPM
- Continuous Quality CQI
- Fistula First
- Hemolytic Events
- Hot Topics & Heads Up
- Medical Directors
- Meeting Presentations
- New Unit Administrators
- Nutshell Updates
- Patient Safety
- Pediatric Patients
- Professionalism
- State Survey Readiness
- Surgeons
- Water Treatment
Catheter Reduction
Below are five documents Heartland Kidney Network used in 2006 for "Project Cath-Out". We believe you will find this a very useful CQI activity for your unit in reducing catheter use. Included are Action Steps, Overcoming Roadblocks (a root cause analysis), Change Concepts that give citations from various journals supporting the goal of catheter reduction. Also included is a 90-Day Countdown plan and a Catheter Assessment Algorithm.
- Cath-Out Action Steps
- Overcoming Roadblocks to Catheter Reduction (root cause analysis)
- Change Concepts (citations from journals)
- 90-Day Count Down Plan
- Catheter Assessment Tool/Algorithm
- Help! My facility has too many catheters! (This is a WebEx recording from Sept. 27, 2007) If you have never been in WebEx before you will get prompts to download and install the WebEx player. You will need to do this to see and hear the session.