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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented
Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...
2011 Guidelines
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...
The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...
The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...
The Problem Falls are a serious problem for older people, composing the largest single category ...
Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...
