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Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented
In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...
Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...
An analysis of the current market
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...
One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...
2011 Guidelines
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...
When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...
At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...
A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...
For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...
Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD, this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...
At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...
Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...
Even best practices need fine-tuning. When the critical care team at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, ...
Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....
The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...
A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...
The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...
Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...
The ProblemMajor abdominal surgery, such as elective colon surgery or major hernia repair, is hig...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...
The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...
The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...
The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...
The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...
The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...
The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...
The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...
The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...
The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...
The Problem Falls are a serious problem for older people, composing the largest single category ...
The Problem Nearly one million people develop pressure ulcers each year, and 60,000 U.S. hospita...
The Problem OSF St. Mary Medical Center, in collaboration with the OSF system-wide Patient Safet...
The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...
Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...
St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...
In order to significantly impact the patients with HF and reduce their readmission rates at Prove...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...
