Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

March 2nd, 2012
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This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

February 22nd, 2012
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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

February 1st, 2012
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Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

February 1st, 2012
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

November 1st, 2010
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