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The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...
The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...
Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...
Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...
43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...
The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...
The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...
The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...
On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...
The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...