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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
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...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...