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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...
The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...
The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...
The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...
Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...
America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...
Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...
Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...
The use of "triggers" or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring th...
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...
A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...
The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...
Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...