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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
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...
