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

October 1st, 2011
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The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

October 1st, 2011
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In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

October 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

October 1st, 2011
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A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

September 8th, 2011
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Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

July 27th, 2011
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Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

July 1st, 2011
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The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

January 1st, 2011
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This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

January 1st, 2011
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This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

January 1st, 2011
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The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

October 26th, 2010
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A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

December 3rd, 2009
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The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

February 1st, 2009
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W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

September 9th, 2008
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The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...

January 1st, 2005
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