Guides/Reports

    Call to Action: Safeguarding the Integrity of Healthcare Quality and Safety Systems

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    It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

    October 25th, 2012
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    Physician Visits After Hospital Discharge: Implications for Reducing Readmissions

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

    December 1st, 2011
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    Hospital Readmission after Colon Surgery, Common, Costly and Preventable

    Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

    November 16th, 2011
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    Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation

    Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

    October 1st, 2011
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    Achieving an Exceptional Patient and Family Experience of Inpatient Hospital Care

    n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

    October 1st, 2011
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    Hospitals take cultural sensitivity seriously

    Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

    July 27th, 2011
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