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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...
The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...
This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...
This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...
The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...
The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...
An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...
This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...
This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...
This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...
This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...
The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...
South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...
St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...
University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...
AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...