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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...
Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...
This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...
