Science news articles about 'quality improvement efforts'

... for Healthcare Innovation at Group Health Center for Health Studies. The Model guides quality improvement efforts based nationally, regionally, and in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and North Carolina. "We ...

... analysts instructed hospitals to use the data to guide local prevention strategies and other quality improvement efforts aimed at reducing infection rates. The Mayo group presented its findings this ...

... and in more efficient, less costly health care,” said Shah. “For instance, focusing quality improvement efforts on reducing postoperative sepsis and infection due to medical care could create large ...

... common in patients with lower predicted operative risk, one way to initially focus quality improvement efforts is to look most closely at deaths that are statistically 'unexpected' — i.e., occurring ...

... in patient experiences might be best addressed by targeting patient experience and quality improvement efforts in low-performing practices with high concentrations of racial and ethnic minority ...

... a residency program; however, this is just one component of what should be a larger quality improvement effort," the authors conclude. "An online event tracking system is a feasible, promising and ...

... in the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "In addition to current quality improvement efforts, we will likely need universal coverage to achieve good control for all adults ...

... lead author on the study. "When you look at previous quality improvement efforts, it appears that single strategies don't work that well." Clinical guidelines aim to prevent ...

... hospital about $3.2 million annually on average. That is higher than other proven quality improvement efforts for hospitals such as computerized physician order entry and medication bar-coding ...

... , both in the overall population and in every subgroup that was examined. Many research and quality improvement efforts already measure or are proposing to measure treatment intensity in the care of ...