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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...
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 ...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...
An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...
The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...
Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...
The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...
Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...
This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...
This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...
This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...
