In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

December 1st, 2011
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Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

November 16th, 2011
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

November 15th, 2011
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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

November 1st, 2011
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The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

November 1st, 2011
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HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

October 31st, 2011
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Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

October 19th, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 2011
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In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

October 1st, 2011
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The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

October 1st, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

October 1st, 2011
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A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

September 26th, 2011
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A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

September 8th, 2011
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

August 22nd, 2011
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The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

August 1st, 2011
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Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

July 27th, 2011
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The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

July 1st, 2011
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This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

January 1st, 2011
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This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

November 1st, 2010
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The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

October 26th, 2010
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Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

September 20th, 2010
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The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

July 31st, 2009
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The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

January 27th, 2009
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The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

January 24th, 2009
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Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...

January 14th, 2009
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W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

September 9th, 2008
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The TriCentral Palliative Care Program toolkit presents a wide range of educational, technical as...

November 8th, 2002
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