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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The IHI Improvement Capability SelfâAssessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...