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The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care across 10 areas of patient harm through the implementation and dissemination of best practices in clinical quality. This guide includes checklists for 10 areas (click on each area for further HPOE…
This webinar highlights the upcoming HPOE action guide, 'Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections' as well as presents successful projects to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections by hospitals that participate in the national On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI initiative and…
Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for large health care systems. Each year Vidant Health, a regional health system serving eastern North Carolina, logs more than 24,000 distinct patient encounters with a primary language other than English…
This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implementation of health information technology and reduce risks associated with its use. Building on recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems…
This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment to assess how a new infrastructure project would effect community health.
The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers and crew. Now health care professionals are using checklists more frequently to provide safe care for patients. Checklists have improved processes for patient care in operating rooms, intensive care and…
There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medicine and mental health and substance abuse. Better integration of the artificial separation between physical health and mental health is the embodiment of the Triple Aim. Focusing on improving health…
Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of potentially avoidable adverse events after major cancer surgery, with a detrimental effect on numerous outcome-level measures. However, there was a concomitant reduction in failure-to-rescue rates and…