The AHA and Laerdal Medical worked together for decades to help deliver a new standard of resuscitation quality and patient care focused on CPR competence. The result was Resuscitation Quality Improvement, or RQI, developed in 2015. RQI is a simulation-based quality improvement program for healthcare professionals on CPR skills.
RQI 2020, which offers a comprehensive quality improvement program to aimed at delivering higher CPR quality at a lower cost for health systems, will be released in January.
“The American Heart Association believes that preventable death from sudden cardiac arrest in hospitals is a public health crisis,” said American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown. “Our goal is to create a world where no one dies from cardiac arrest, and today, we are putting a bold stake in the ground to transform the standard of care for treating victims of preventable cardiac arrest.”
About 400 U.S. hospitals have implemented the RQI program and over 300,000 healthcare providers have improved CPR competency since the program’s introduction.
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