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My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...
Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...
The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...
The Franciscan Clinic was designed with the idea that all employees who carry the hospital's insu...
Regional Health Improvement Collaborative provides a neutral, trusted mechanism through which all...