Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

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 ...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

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 ...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

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...

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

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 ...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

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

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

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

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

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...