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This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...
A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...
This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...
This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...
This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...
"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...
John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...
The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...
HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...
In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...
Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...
The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...
The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...
Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
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 ...
Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...
An analysis of the current market
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...
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...
One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...
2011 Guidelines
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...
When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...
At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
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...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...