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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
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...
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...
Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...
This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
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...
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 paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
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...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
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...
A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...
The model described in this white paper represents IHI's best current assessment of the component...