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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...
Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...
Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...
For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...
For the last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...
This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...
This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment process and results, a...
This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...
The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...
This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...
This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...
This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...
This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...