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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.
June 26, 2015
Lea Radick
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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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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.
June 24, 2015
Lea Radick
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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.
June 8, 2015
Maulik S. Joshi and Todd C. Linden
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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.
June 8, 2015
Lola Butcher
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In embracing the concept of high reliability, hospitals work to stamp out patient harm.
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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.
June 8, 2015
Cynthia Hedges Greising, Cynthia Hedges, and Katya Seligman
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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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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.
June 8, 2015
Fred Gattas Jr.
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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.
June 8, 2015
Trustee Staff
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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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Online exclusive

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.
June 8, 2015
Lola Butcher
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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.
May 11, 2015
Fred Gattas Jr.
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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.
May 11, 2015
Trustee Staff
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Safe health IT technology use is a patient-harm reduction initiative in a recent Joint Commission alert.
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