Quality & Patient Safety Articles by Topic: Quality Improvement
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
In recent years, several fellowships and education programs have been introduced to the field. Many...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
This issues has articles concerning the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals, options for patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
Patient satisfaction is on the rise, according to Press Ganey's annual Hospital Pulse Report. The...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF), under a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor.
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
A study published in the November 9 Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that hospital staff...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
Physicians are responsible for one of the most complicated and important decisions in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
As more facilities switch to electronic medical records (EMR), many are finding an unanticipated...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 42, October 21, 2009
It's widely reported that racial and ethnic minorities receive less comprehensive healthcare than...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
The Twelfth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study shows that a large gap exists...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Quality improvement is something that UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) in Worcester, MA, has...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In 2007, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles rolled out a “universal floor&rdquo...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In today’s culture, many hospitals are increasing their focus on patient-centered...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
This issues provides articles about building successful patient advisory boards, how a universal...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
On September 28, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Oncology Nursing...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
New York's North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System announced recently that it will pay each of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a set of 18 measures to better manage...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum announced the 2009 winners of the John M. Eisenberg...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
Once a novelty that few hospitals utilized, telemedicine is now becoming more common, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has launched the online component of its Improvement...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
The healthcare industry has maintained for years that it is unlike others simply because caring for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
A recent commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association calls for a list of patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Developing the right metrics—valid, reliable, feasible, meaningful, and...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
This issue contains stories that discuss a new consumer reporting system developed by the Agency...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 34, August 26, 2009
More news from the AHRQ- this time, however, patients may be acting as a threat to themselves. An...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
To boost quality and lower healthcare costs, it's not necessary for the American healthcare system...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Today's patients want to have a greater involvement in their care. To that end, both the federal...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Patients wanting to compare hospitals have a new outlet to do so: the same place where one might go...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) included modifications to the medication management chapter in its...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Ensuring patient safety and education are two of the most important tasks staff members in...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
As more hospital budgets are cut, it’s important for staff members who work in quality and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
Reducing rehospitalizations has become a national focus as health reform plays out. Readmissions...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
As hospitals face deeper payment cuts from the federal government, many are considering new methods...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
Performance data from Illinois hospitals will be posted on a public Web site this coming fall...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
The American Hospital Association and McKesson awarded its Quest for Quality Prize to Bronson...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 28, July 15, 2009
The Hospital Quality Alliance announced last week the addition of new data available on the CMS...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 7, July 1, 2009
For babies born prematurely, even the noise generated from a normal conversation can be too loud...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
A larger number of physicians are offering patients the option to be treated online, reports The...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria, VA, has launched a program titled HeartLink to empower...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
Delegates at the American Medical Association's annual meeting recently approved a policy that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Performing hand hygiene adequately and often is something that many healthcare facilities are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
On June 13, 2009, President Barack Obama called for an additional $220 billion cut to hospital...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
A new study done by Meritt Hawkins and Associates shows that wait times are growing rapidly for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Last month, a group of major healthcare players came together to take on the Obama administration's...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
A new proposed bill aims to lessen the effects of a nursing shortage, reports AHA News
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
The Joint Commission has asked the field to review and comment on revisions to the 2009 National...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Nine hospitals began taking part in a pilot program last week to track and analyze adverse events...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
some hospitals are turning to color-coded uniforms, most often scrubs, for each different type of...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
When someone becomes sick or injured and visits a doctor’s office, hospital, or other...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Creating a culture of safety has become a buzz phrase in patient safety during the past few years...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
This issue covers how HCAHPS has changed for 2009 and how facilities can boost their HCAHPS scores...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
CMS released its fifth quarterly update of patient satisfaction data March 26, one year after the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Lengthy wait times at emergency rooms (ER) around the country have given way to "urgent care...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
Researchers at North Carolina State University are embarking on redesigning the typical hospital...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
A new report from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, says that fewer "bad"...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will soon be launching a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
President Obama announced last week that the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The sixth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study was released on April 7...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A paper published in the most recent issue of Health Affairshighlights some of the areas in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Many hospitals and medical schools offer some variation of simulation-based training in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Announced at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) National Forum in December 2008, the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, has bucked the trend and guaranteed patients who undergo...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
A recent report by the New York City (NYC) comptroller found that hospitals in NYC report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Press Ganey, a consulting firm that works with 40% of the nation's hospitals to help improve...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Those patients who have a stronger relationship with their doctors were more likely to receive...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Hospitals that participate in the Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
The California HealthCare Foundation has released a study that shows that although the state began...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 45 new practices for delivering culturally competent...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
A portion of the recently passed $787 economic stimulus bill will provide money for studying...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
In an effort to accommodate the many physicians and nurses who work at more than one hospitals, a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
South Carolina hospitals will join together to fight against healthcare-acquired infections (HAI...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
California has published a study ranking hospitals based on their mortality rates, reports The Los...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
A study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week shows that when implementing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
The Chinese government has been debating a reformation of its public hospitals as one of the many...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
A study in the November/December Health Affairs shows that although many quality reporting...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Every year, 30,000–62,000 patients die as the result of central line–associated...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 1, January 1, 2009
To prevent central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), Swedish Medical Center in...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Throughout his medical career, Eric Schwartz, MD, hospitalist and medical director at Holston...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
Australian Health Minister John Della Bosca says that the government will require hospitals to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 49, December 3, 2008
In its annual report about quality and safety, The Joint Commission has released data to show that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 48, November 26, 2008
Back in late 2005 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation introduced “Expecting Success and...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
The National Health Service (NHS) has created a plan to post patient comments about NHS hospitals...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
Scarborough Hospital, Canada's largest urban community hospital, has turned around its reputation...