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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...
Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...
Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...
Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
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...
This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
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 ...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
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...
