A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...

December 5th, 2011
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About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

December 1st, 2011
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In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

December 1st, 2011
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As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

November 17th, 2011
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Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

November 16th, 2011
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

November 9th, 2011
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Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

November 8th, 2011
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

November 7th, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

November 1st, 2011
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This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

November 1st, 2011
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The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

November 1st, 2011
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The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

October 26th, 2011
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"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

October 24th, 2011
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John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

October 24th, 2011
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Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

October 9th, 2011
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The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

October 9th, 2011
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 2011
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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 2011
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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 2011
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This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

October 1st, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

October 1st, 2011
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The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

October 1st, 2011
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HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

October 1st, 2011
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In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

October 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

October 1st, 2011
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Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

October 1st, 2011
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n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

October 1st, 2011
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In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

September 30th, 2011
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

August 29th, 2011

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

August 1st, 2011
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Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

July 29th, 2011
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Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

July 11th, 2011
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Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

July 1st, 2011
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The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

July 1st, 2011
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Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

June 29th, 2011
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The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

June 27th, 2011
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Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

June 6th, 2011
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Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

June 1st, 2011
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In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

June 1st, 2011
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Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

May 16th, 2011
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Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

April 11th, 2011
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March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

March 7th, 2011
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An analysis of the current market

March 1st, 2011
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At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

February 14th, 2011
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Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

February 1st, 2011
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 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

February 1st, 2011
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One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

January 24th, 2011
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The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

January 1st, 2011
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The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

January 1st, 2011
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