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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...
This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...
This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...
The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...
The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...
An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...
To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...
The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...
This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...
Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...
The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The award...
This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...
Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...
A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...
This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...
This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...
This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...
This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...
An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...
This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...
Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...
An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state
The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.
In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...
HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...
This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...
Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
The use of "triggers" or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring th...
My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...
This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...
According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...
The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...
South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...
Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
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...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...
The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...
Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
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...
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...
In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...
