Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

October 30th, 2012
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Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

October 10th, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

October 9th, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

October 1st, 2012
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Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

October 1st, 2012
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The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

September 26th, 2012
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How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

September 12th, 2012
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A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

September 9th, 2012
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Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

September 9th, 2012
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There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

September 7th, 2012
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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

September 6th, 2012
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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

September 1st, 2012
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Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

August 1st, 2012
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This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

August 1st, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

April 1st, 2012
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This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

March 1st, 2012
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