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The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
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 ...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...
This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...
This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
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 ...
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...
Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...
The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...
The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...