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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...
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...
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...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
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...
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...
W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...
