Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

September 16th, 2016
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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

July 6th, 2015
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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

July 1st, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

April 16th, 2014
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As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

October 25th, 2013
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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

February 22nd, 2012
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Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

February 1st, 2012
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As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

February 1st, 2012
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The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

February 1st, 2012
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 2011
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At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

December 20th, 2010
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