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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...
Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...
This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...
Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...
South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...
Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...
With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...
SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...
This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...
This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...
The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...
HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD, this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...
The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...