Initiatives/Campaigns
American Hospital Association advocacy initiatives and campaigns.
The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly used in clinical situations where they are unlikely to rpvide high value or improve patient outcomes. The results were further reviewed and narrowed by clinically active ACP staff physicians before being…
The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between three and five procedures that should not be performed or should be performed more rarely and only in specific circumstances. ACC staff took the councils� recommendations and compared them to the…
This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in primary care practice; strongly supported by evidence and literature; that would lead to significant health benefits; reduce risk and harm; and reduce risk.
This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: common in primary care practice; strongly supported by evidence and literature; that would lead to significant health benefits; reduce risk and harm; and reduce risk.
The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The awards will be presented on April 5, 2012 during a luncheon at the 2012 NQF Annual Conference and Membership meeting in Washington, DC.
An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state
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HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides tools to support all hospitals in Pennsylvania in implementing an evidence-based universal vaccination initiative, working toward flu vaccination among health care workers becoming a condition of…
In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members race and ethnicity as a foundation for improving the quality of care and reducing disparities. We describe the progress made toward collecting these data, the most commonly used data collection methods, and…
AHA Position
Approximately 57 million Americans live in rural areas and depend upon the hospitals in their communities. Remote geographic location, small size, limited workforce, physician shortages and often constrained financial resources pose a unique set of challenges for rural hospitals.…