In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

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The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

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Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

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Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

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For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

November 2nd, 2012
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The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

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Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

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

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Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

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For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

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

October 30th, 2012
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Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

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Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

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Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

October 9th, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

October 1st, 2012
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Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

October 1st, 2012
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The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

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How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

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A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

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Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

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There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

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Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

August 1st, 2012
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This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

April 1st, 2012
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This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

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

February 6th, 2012
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The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

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This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

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This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

January 1st, 2012
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This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

January 1st, 2012
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