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Improvement Across the Continuum
Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmissions, reducing community asthma rates—these are just a few of the many improvement efforts tha
Quality Care for Veterans
After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecedented number of combat deployments. Representing about 25 percent of the U.S.
Dream Partnerships in Health Care
If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middletown, Conn., began meeting with community partners.
Targeted Education Reduces Readmissions
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed facility in Wytheville, Va.
Business Case for Equitable Care
The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and access to capital, competing regulatory issues and challenges, and resistance to change.
Spreading Quality Improvement
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmissions: At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro
A Multifactorial Falls Program to Reduce Injury from Falls
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a national focus.
Early Identification and Treatment of Sepsis through Initiation of Response Team in the Emergency Department (ED CODE SEPSIS)
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics National Hospital Discharge Survey, patients hospitalized for septicemia or sepsis had a 17 pe
Resident-Driven Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for Inpatient Management and Transition of COPD Patients
At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illinois Health and Hospital Association revealed that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rates