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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...
This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...
The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients' Wishes and Accou...
W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...
