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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...
The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...
