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Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
