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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...
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 ...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
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 ...
The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...
While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...
The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...
This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...
This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...
