ORLANDO, Fla.—Tackling quality and safety improvement in healthcare facilities is vitally important. But with its increasing complexity, health system board members may struggle to keep up. So, the ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

Appropriateness of testing for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a full ...

Vice Chair for Quality Improvement and Innovations, Kyler Godwin, Ph.D. The role of the Quality Improvement and Innovations Vice Chair Group is to instill a learning healthcare culture within Baylor ...

Almost two decades ago, the landmark report “To Err is Human” compelled healthcare to address the large numbers of hospitalized patients experiencing preventable harm. Concurrently, it became clear ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—A significant challenge in quality improvement is demonstrating the return on investment. But a team working in London as part of the country’s National Health Service has developed a ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

Ghana has achieved a major milestone in its national healthcare quality improvement journey, as the private health sector formally joins the SafeCare quality framework through a licensing agreement ...