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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...
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...
There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
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 provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...
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 ...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...
During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...
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...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...
