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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
