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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
