Hospitalists play a critical role in QI and patient safety in hospitals, focusing on incremental improvements and transparent ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following article is written by Naomi Kuznets, PhD, senior director and general manager of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, and comes from the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement ...

Improving health equity is part of the core of quality improvement and requires data collection and community engagement strategies for underserved populations, said Shawn Griffin, MD, president and ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

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 ...

Improve healthcare operations and leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance processes. The online Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement will help you hone your analytical skills to ...

According to the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, poor-quality healthcare contributes to more deaths globally than lack of access to care. While quality improvement ...

Los Angeles-based UCLA Health System, which includes three acute-care hospitals and a neuropsychiatric hospital, has three primary focus areas in patient safety and quality. While the health system ...

The Optimizing Obstetric Care Quality Initiative was launched to address persistently elevated obstetric length of stay (LOS), which had drifted two standard deviations above peer benchmarks. Early ...