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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...
Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented
In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...
An analysis of the current market
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...
2011 Guidelines
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...
Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD, this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...
The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...
Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...
The ProblemMajor abdominal surgery, such as elective colon surgery or major hernia repair, is hig...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...
The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...
The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...
The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...
The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
