Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

September 14th, 2015
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Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

August 17th, 2015
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Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

July 21st, 2015
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This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

July 14th, 2015
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This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

July 1st, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

June 29th, 2015
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Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

June 18th, 2015
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The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

June 17th, 2015
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The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

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Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria ...

June 8th, 2015
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A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

May 28th, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

April 21st, 2015
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Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

April 15th, 2015
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Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

April 3rd, 2015
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This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

April 3rd, 2015
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