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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
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...
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 ...
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...
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 ...
Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...
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 ...
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 ...
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...
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...
W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...