Analyzing contributing factors and implementing targeted, sustainable solutions have helped hospi...

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A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

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Post-discharge phone calls are best practice, but multiple phone calls can confuse and frustrate ...

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This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

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“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...

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Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

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Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...

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Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...

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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

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By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

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A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

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Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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