ORLANDO, Fla.—Tackling quality and safety improvement in healthcare facilities is vitally important. But with its increasing complexity, health system board members may struggle to keep up. So, the ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

Appropriateness of testing for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a full ...

1. The framework outlines 29 competencies and 486 behavior-based statements across eight dimensions that healthcare quality teams can use to assess and adjust their own performance. 2. The tool was ...

Almost two decades ago, the landmark report “To Err is Human” compelled healthcare to address the large numbers of hospitalized patients experiencing preventable harm. Concurrently, it became clear ...

Although a number of different quality improvement strategies exist, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth noted that overall there is a lack of understanding of how to connect these different strategies in ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

Ghana has achieved a major milestone in its national healthcare quality improvement journey, as the private health sector formally joins the SafeCare quality framework through a licensing agreement ...