Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

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...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

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

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...

The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...