A quality improvement initiative improved rates of lipid screening among children and adolescents and may improve downstream ...

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 ...

Quality improvement (QI) in health care is an activity in which intentional change in processes and systems of care is attempted in a methodical, reflective and iterative manner in order to improve ...

Within a year of initiation, a multidisciplinary project to improve screening and treatment for iron deficiency in pregnancy ...

New findings from the American Hospital Association highlight where hospital quality strategies are gaining traction — and where leaders say additional support is needed. The insights come from the ...

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An initiative launched three years ago to tackle barriers to patient care has made significant progress in improving diabetes outcomes across Southeast Ohio.

Courage was a key theme at this year’s annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum as speakers urged attendees to oppose the quality and access compromises likely to come amid | The annual ...

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to navigate this question.

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) report disproportionally worse cancer mortality. Current global cancer control efforts focus predominantly on expanding access to multimodality treatment for ...

Over the past two decades, opioid-related deaths have increased in the United States by six times and the Department of Health and Human Services has declared the opioid crisis a public health ...