Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

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 ...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

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 ...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

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.

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

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 ...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

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 ...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

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...

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...