Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

September 16th, 2016
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The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

September 16th, 2016
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In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

September 16th, 2016
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Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

February 5th, 2015
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...

November 17th, 2014
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More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...

April 21st, 2014
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The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

October 18th, 2012
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Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

June 5th, 2012
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Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

June 1st, 2012
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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

December 13th, 2010
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A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

December 3rd, 2009
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The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...

July 1st, 2009
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