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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
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, ...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...
In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
