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Reducing alarm fatigue
A centralized monitoring system might help reduce unimportant alarms with no increase in cardiopulmonary arrest events.
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Addressing malnutrition and improving performance
It’s a widespread problem among admitted patients that often goes unrecognized.
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Quick Byte: PrEP advances
Preexposure prophylaxis has the potential to curtail the HIV epidemic.
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Creating a digital pill
It’s the latest development in a burgeoning field.
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Implementing a health literacy assessment
Limited health literacy is associated with poor outcomes – and it’s common.
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A patient portal for the inpatient experience
Portals help more patients engage with care outside the hospital, but inside they are still uncommon.
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Hospital boards can promote quality improvement
Study highlights the importance of board-level clinical leaders in hospitals.
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Making structural improvements in health care
The relatively new field of improvement science provides a framework for research focused on health care improvement.
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New tool improves hand-off communications
One of the riskiest transitions that patients go through is when they change levels of care.
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Quick Byte: U.S. health care can still innovate
The United States health care system has many problems, but it also promotes more innovation than its counterparts in other nations.
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Measuring high-value care practices
There are few instruments designed to measure the success of high-value care practices.
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RIV takes center stage at HM18
The influence of the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes (RIV) program extends far beyond the SHM annual conference.
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Reducing outpatient medication costs
Hospitalists used data to create a new algorithm-based tool to further reduce prescription cost.
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Quick Byte: Take a seat
Sitting down at a patient’s bedside improves some aspects of patients’ and families’ experience of their hospital care.
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Using “design thinking” to improve health care
With design thinking, the innovations come from those who actually work in health care spaces.