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Quality/Patient Safety
From Volume to Value to Volume Again?
Three hospitals and systems have initiated a campaign to define a minimum annual volume threshold for hospitals and surgeons for 10 surgical procedures.
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Quality & Safety
Patient Safety
National Patient Safety Foundation Issues New Root Cause Analysis Guidelines
The new guidelines aim to help hospitals and systems make patient care safer in settings across the continuum of care.
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Viewpoint
Bottom Line in Patient Safety and Quality
Boards should be tracking a total patient harm rate and discussing strategies for improvement.
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Patient Safety
Eliminating Patient Harm
In embracing the concept of high reliability, hospitals work to stamp out patient harm.
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HPOE
Making the Business Case for Equitable Health Care
Here are a list of issues that can help leaders decide how to proceed when it comes to making their patient care more equitable.
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Update
Making Sense of Hospital Quality Ratings
Through conversations with the board of trustees and representative groups of membership, the AHA developed a set of principles for choosing quality metrics and a list of 11 prioritized areas on which hospital measurement should be focused.
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Quality
IOM Proposes Priority Health Measures
Broad use of a finite set of standardized measures could reduce the burden of unnecessary measurement of health and health care, and align the incentives and actions of several organizations at multiple levels.
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The High-Reliability Journey Starts with Transparency
A patient safety expert shares eight lessons learned from his own hospital and from organizations across the country.
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Update
A New Framework for Working with Patient and Family Advisers
A new guide from the American Hospital Association presents a structure to engage patients and families as advisers.
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Patient Safety
Joint Commission: Leadership Key to Health IT Safety
Safe health IT technology use is a patient-harm reduction initiative in a recent Joint Commission alert.
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