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The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...
The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...
The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...
The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...
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...
The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...
The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...
The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...
The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...
The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...
