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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...
A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...
The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...
In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...
This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...
This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...
The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...
This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...
This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...
This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...
This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...
This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...
In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...
This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...
This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...
This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...
This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...
This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...
This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...
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...
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...
Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information
An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...
The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...
Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...
In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...