Standardizing communication and education processes when teams handoff patients to other teams could help improve outcomes. Teaching hospitals’ processes for end-of-rotation handoff vary greatly…
If medical and dental providers transitioned to electronic business transactions, they could realize significant labor hour and cost savings. Excerpt: “Widespread adoption of electronic business…
PDSA cycles are the building blocks of healthcare improvement, but need to be embraced as a scientific method that includes a prediction and test of…
Medicare penalties for avoidable complications rose 18 percent in 2016. Hospitals were penalized for the first time for spread of two antibiotic-resistant bacteria: methicillin-resistant…
AHRQ preliminary estimates for 2015 show that the rate of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) was 115 per 1000 discharges, down from 145 in 2010. AHRQ estimated…
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