As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South...

March 22nd, 2017
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Communities around the country are experiencing challenges in preventing substance use. For some ...

January 19th, 2017
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After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

September 16th, 2016
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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

September 16th, 2016
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While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

September 16th, 2016
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With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

February 29th, 2016
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Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

February 29th, 2016
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T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

February 29th, 2016
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This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

October 5th, 2015
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Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

September 14th, 2015
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The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

June 18th, 2015
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Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

June 18th, 2015
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Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

June 17th, 2015
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Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

June 17th, 2015
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The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

June 16th, 2015
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The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

June 8th, 2015
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The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

March 27th, 2015
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When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

March 16th, 2015
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This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

October 1st, 2013
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Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

March 12th, 2013
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