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AHA Webinars

Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

May 11th, 2017
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Breath of Fresh Care: Redefining Processes around Pediatric Asthma Core Measures

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

June 16th, 2015
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Care Coordination Across the Continuum to Improve Transitions of Care with the Goal of Reducing Readmissions

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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Lean/Six Sigma Methods Reduce Troponin Turnaround Time for Emergency Department Patients in a 500-Bed Tertiary Hospital Level I Trauma Center

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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Think Sepsis—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identify Early Sepsis and Improve Patient Outcomes

In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...

June 8th, 2015
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Combining Nursing Assessment, Electronic Medical Record Technology and Risk Stratified Interventions to Develop an Effective Falls Prevention Program

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

June 8th, 2015
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Reduction in Blood Culture Contamination Rates in the ED Through Use of Skin Cleansing and Antisepsis Prior to Blood Draw

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

June 8th, 2015
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A Process Improvement Project Decreases Blood Culture Contamination Rates in the Emergency Room

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

June 8th, 2015
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