Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...