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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South...
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...
While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...
With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...
T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...
Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...
Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...
This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
