Some hospitals have videotaped medical procedures as part of quality improvement initiatives. While the idea of healthcare workers being videotaped may conjure thoughts of “Big Brother” and fears of ...
Some hospitals have videotaped medical procedures as part of quality improvement initiatives. While the idea of healthcare workers being videotaped may conjure thoughts of “Big Brother” and fears of ...
Quality improvement reports are used by the medical industry to document how organizations have identified a problem or opportunity, measured and analyzed the problem and implemented an improvement ...
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 ...
This articlefocuses on setting a performance goal for a quality improvement activity (please see AAAHC Standard 5.II.B. 2). 2) Information that will let you know whether the issueyou have chosen for ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a report to Congress, HHS highlighted increased interest and activity in quality improvement activities in healthcare since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The 2013 ...
From required Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicators, hospitals now ...
The mission of Research Integrity & Security and the IRB is to verify and promote the continual ethical conduct of research. The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) has a quality improvement plan ...