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Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...
This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...
This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...
Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented
An analysis of the current market
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...
2011 Guidelines
Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...
Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...
The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
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 ProblemMajor abdominal surgery, such as elective colon surgery or major hernia repair, is hig...
The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...
The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...
The Problem According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...
The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...
The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...
The Problem Nearly one million people develop pressure ulcers each year, and 60,000 U.S. hospita...
Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...
In 2004, officials at Miller Electric, a division of Illinois-based Illinois Tool Works, knew the...
