ORLANDO, Fla.—Tackling quality and safety improvement in healthcare facilities is vitally important. But with its increasing complexity, health system board members may struggle to keep up. So, the ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

A new framework for health equity leadership lays out the key skills and conditions necessary for success. Over the past several years, as the pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, many ...

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 ...

Through literature review and collaborative design, we propose the Focus, Activity, Statistic, Scale type, and Reference (FASStR) framework to provide a systematic approach to health care operation ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Appropriateness of testing for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a full ...

1. The framework outlines 29 competencies and 486 behavior-based statements across eight dimensions that healthcare quality teams can use to assess and adjust their own performance. 2. The tool was ...

Ghana has achieved a major milestone in its national healthcare quality improvement journey, as the private health sector formally joins the SafeCare quality framework through a licensing agreement ...

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 ...