The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

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

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With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

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Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

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Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

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At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

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The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

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Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

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Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

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For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

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