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IHI launches campaign to save 100,000 lives
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced Tuesday that it is launching a campaign to...
Study: Consumers support best-practice guidelines, rewards programs
Eighty percent of U.S. consumers would want their physicians to use best-practice guidelines for...
Scottish health group begs hospital visitors to improve hygiene
The health group Quality Improvement Scotland recently launched a campaign to encourage hospital...

AHA quality improvement program wins HHS award
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) Get With The Guidelines program received the 2004...
CA database to help benchmark physician quality
The California Association of Physician Groups will build a data repository for its members to...

CMS leader, hospitals among Codman Award winners
The quality coordination director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and two...
Study: Medication errors may be greater in sick children
The level of medication errors in sick children may be higher than previously thought, according to...
MN reforms would pay for performance
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Monday proposed a sweeping healthcare reform package, including a...

CMS seeks comment on quality measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeks comment on standard information to be used...
Survey: Almost half of Americans worry about healthcare safety
Five years after an Institute of Medicine report focused attention on medical errors in hospitals...

Death rate higher in hospitals that lack a cardiac surgery program
Patients who undergo an increasingly popular non-surgical heart procedure in hospitals that do not...
ED overcrowding harms AMI patients
Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs) can cause delays that can be deadly to heart...

Findings help predict stroke outcomes
Stroke patients are more likely to experience poor outcomes or death at three months if they show...
Time running out to correct your public data
If your hospital is participating in CMS' Hospital Quality Alliance (formerly known as the National...

Audit finds widespread violation of NY’s mandatory reporting law
Audit finds widespread violation of NY’s mandatory reporting law
AHRQ guide helps make sense of quality indicators
AHRQ guide helps make sense of quality indicators
Focus on these 22 key quality areas
Quality improvement professionals should focus on 22 "national priority areas" to improve quality...
Cold temp means higher risk for stroke, heart attack in women
Cold temperatures mean higher stroke, heart attack risk for some women
Quality varies at top hosptials
Quality of care varies, even at top hosptials
Bariatric surgery is effective for some obese patients
Bariatric surgery is effective alternative for some obese patients

Tips to reduce pediatric LOS
Children's hospitals can discharge pediatric patients sooner, less expensively, and with less...
Quality measures are on the way for DVT
The JCAHO will appoint an expert panel over the next two months and begin pilot testing a tentative...
Secrets for creating a culture of safety
How to establish an award-winning culture of safety

New manual streamlines data collecton efforts
The free manual includes specifications on common quality measures, a data dictionary, measure...
"Quality gaps" still exist among providers
"The [healthcare] system is deeply polarized, delivering excellent care to some people, and...
Diabetics should monitor blood sugar more often
"The relationship between blood sugar levels in people with diabetes and whether this increases...

Most hospitals are sending quality data to CMS, but with difficulty
About 130 hospitals have experienced technical difficulties trying to electronically submit their...
Patients stop taking meds, don't tell docs
Patients don't tell docs when they stop taking meds due to money woes

Physicians are best counselors for smoking cessation
Physicians are best counselors for smoking cessation
ACE inhibitors are under prescribed in heart failure patients
About 32% of elderly heart failure patients are discharged from hospitals without prescriptions for...