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A practical resource for hospital leaders striving to enhance care quality, meeting the 6 IOM aims for improvement in patient care.
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve patient understanding and involvement in their health care and the realization that many of these patients needed additional support and information concerning medication management, led the organization…
Chartpack: Teaching hospitals train future health care professionals, conduct medical research and fulfill a distinct and vital role in delivering patient care.
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff actively tracked patients with manual entry of a patient's location into a computer system. Keeping track of such a high number of patients in real time was clearly a challenge given the ongoing…
The AHA's Framework for Medical Liability Reform
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the second most common hospital-associated infection after urinary tract infections. The primary risk factor for the development of hospital-associated bacterial pneumonia is mechanical ventilation. Fatality…