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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
