Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

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...

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 ...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

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 ...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...