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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
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...
There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
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...
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients' Wishes and Accou...
The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...
W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...