At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

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Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

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Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

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The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

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In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

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High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

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