Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...