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2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Award Winners/Finalists

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
Chairperson's File
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Longitudinal Discharge

One successful initiative can lead to another.
Guides/Reports
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What Keeps Facilities from Implementing Best Practices to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery?

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them
Guides/Reports
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Events Associated with the Prescribing, Dispensing,and Administering of Medication Loading Doses

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic levels.
Guides/Reports
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The Breadth of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Nonventilated versus Ventilated Patients in Pennsylvania

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical and financial sense to focus efforts on patients who require mechanical ventilation.
Toolkits/Methodology
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Falls Toolkit

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and respond to the high-risk problem of persistent patient falls, evaluation of falls events can provide add
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Non-Compete Agreements Among Healthcare Providers: 6 Trends

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years and is not expected to reverse — has implications for their employment contracts,
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10 Ideas That Hospital and Health System CEOs Need to Ditch

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care delivery models, payment systems and other changes flood the health care system.
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Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems and providers, and this heterogeneity leads to equally variable implications for patient safety.