Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...