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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...
Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...
At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
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...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
