Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

September 16th, 2016
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Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

April 25th, 2016
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This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

March 31st, 2016
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Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

February 29th, 2016
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A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

February 29th, 2016
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Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

February 29th, 2016
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Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

February 29th, 2016
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The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

February 29th, 2016
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The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

February 29th, 2016
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Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

February 29th, 2016
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North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

February 29th, 2016
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

February 29th, 2016
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The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

January 4th, 2016
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

November 23rd, 2015
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The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

October 6th, 2015
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Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

October 6th, 2015
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This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

October 5th, 2015
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Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

September 15th, 2015
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The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

September 14th, 2015
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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