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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
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...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
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 ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...