Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

September 16th, 2016
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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

September 16th, 2016
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Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

September 16th, 2016
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Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

September 16th, 2016
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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

July 6th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

May 29th, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

August 30th, 2013
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Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

March 25th, 2013
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Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

March 12th, 2013
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An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

March 6th, 2013
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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