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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...
The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...