An independent evaluation shows that small medical practices serving Los Angeles' most underserved communities achieved 7 to 13 percent improvement in blood pressure control, cancer screening and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

Mountain Pacific of Helena, Montana, and Quality Health Associates (QHA) of North Dakota in Minot have announced a strategic collaboration designed to coordinate and strengthen the delivery of quality ...

Effective management of quality improvement initiatives includes leadership, teamwork, planning, and pace setting. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed a QI Project Management Tool ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a century, the American health care sector has wrestled with the question of how best to improve the quality of the care it provides. Countless reports, commissions, government ...

Recent Advances in the Development of Biomarkers and Chemoradiotherapeutic Approaches for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Quality improvement initiatives and health services research are often used to target ...