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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South...
After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...
With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...
T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...