New quality improvement award announced
Case Management Weekly, August 22, 2007
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The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) announced that, beginning in 2008, it will present the Team Approaches in Quality Improvement (QI) Award annually at its conference. According to the SHM's August e-newsletter, the new award recognizes exemplary QI initiatives in hospital medicine that engage the full patient care team.
Any hospital-based QI team that is led by an SHM member is qualified to submit a project for consideration. The rules also stipulate that the QI team must be multidisciplinary and include at least one non-hospitalist healthcare practitioner or worker.
Award entries must be received by
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Source: Hospitalist Program Weekly
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