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The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to improve care in ways tailored to each community's needs.
A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and extensive wait times. And rightly so. Emergency departments in the United States continue to experience overcrowding, crippling their ability to handle day-to-day emergencies much less natural disasters or…
This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural and linguistic competency in health care. You may access free and accredited continuing education programs as well as tools to help you and your organization provide respectful,…
This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services and technologies in health care. The topics is ripe for inquiry, given the pace of innovation in health care and the significant funds that flow from traditional investors into the sector each year.
The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiatives to improve culturally and linguistically appropriate services and to reduce disparities in health care.
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system factors, including the CPOE, CDS and medication database design, contributed to their occurrence.
AHA Committee on ResearchThe Committee on Research (COR) of the American Hospital Association has annual and triennial tasks that focus on developing the AHA Research Agenda.
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitivities and religions that can confound doctors, nurses and caregivers and hinder patients' best possible care. Interpreters have been deployed by many hospitals, but more expansive measures now are…