Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...