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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
