Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

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

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

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

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

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

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

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

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

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

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

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

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...