Just over 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine released two seminal reports on the need to improve healthcare quality—one ...

In 2021, the top 1 percent of people with high expenses accounted for 24 percent of all healthcare expenditures, while the bottom 50 percent of people with high expenses accounted for less than 3 ...

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Post-event evacuations have occurred either following Advanced Warning Events (i.e., if the decision was made to shelter-in-place during the event, but subsequent damage was sufficient to necessitate ...

Slide 20: Who is involved in shared decision making in the clinical setting? Slide 21: Collaborative roles in shared decision making—Key Roles Slide 22: Collaborative roles in shared decision ...

“Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting” is a four-module program designed for intensive care unit, or ICU, nurses to gain a sense of confidence and demonstrate competence in catheter-associated urinary ...

Once the business case has been made for medication reconciliation and leadership support has been obtained, the next steps toward building the foundation for your project include: Identify and ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...

An essential first step in implementing a successful medication reconciliation performance improvement project is to gain support within the organization. To be successful, you need the support of ...

Hospice care is a set of services that allow patients in the final phase of life to spend their last days at home or a home-like setting rather than in a hospital. It is for patients who have decided ...

Patients may be exposed to multiple devices (PVCs, CVCs, UCs, and ventilators) at any time. We underscore the importance of collaboration among the interprofessional team to create a safer environment ...

Problem statement: Health care organizations can increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define this learning as reducing the probability that a future patient will be harmed. Most ...