Quality improvement as a concept rose to prominence in the mid- and late-20th century as part of a shift in manufacturing management philosophy that focused on improving product quality while reducing ...

Researchers developed a quality improvement toolkit based on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s inpatient quality indicators and patient safety indicators. Click here to read the full ...

Maitreya Coffey, MD, began her career at the bedside, navigating the complexities of pediatric care while spearheading quality improvement projects. Now, as the first chief quality officer of Columbus ...

The aim of this project was to evaluate the literature with regard to intrapartum prevention, postpartum repair, and post-discharge management of OASIS. Subsequently, we created an OASIS quality care ...

The past 25 years have brought a revolution in the attention to quality in health care, dating from the 1999 Institute of Medicine Report, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” ...

The project — which ran from September 2021 to August 2022 — resulted in an increase in biomarker testing rates, from 68% at the start of the effort to 92% by its conclusion.

Here are three ways hospital department managers can avoid push back or hesitance by employees during new quality improvement projects, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ...

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