43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

December 10th, 2012
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In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

November 19th, 2012
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Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

November 16th, 2012
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Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

November 16th, 2012
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Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

November 15th, 2012
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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

November 13th, 2012
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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

November 13th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

November 12th, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

November 1st, 2012
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Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

October 30th, 2012
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AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

October 25th, 2012
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Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

October 21st, 2012
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A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

October 15th, 2012
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