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Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The IHI Improvement Capability SelfâAssessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...
In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...
Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...