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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...
This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...
The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...
This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...
This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...
This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...
This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
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...
For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...
For the last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...
This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
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...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment process and results, a...
The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...
This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
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...