Quality
Quality
Making structural improvements in health care
The relatively new field of improvement science provides a framework for research focused on health care improvement.
Quality
New tool improves hand-off communications
One of the riskiest transitions that patients go through is when they change levels of care.
Quality
Analytics, board support are quality improvement keys
Knowing when your interventions are having an effect is a skill essential to QI success.
Quality
Measuring high-value care practices
There are few instruments designed to measure the success of high-value care practices.
Clinical
Caring for transgender inpatients
Hospitalists will increasingly find themselves caring for patients who openly claim a gender identity outside the traditional gender categories....
Quality
Team engagement and motivation critical to QI success
Behavioral change is one of the greatest challenges of quality improvement, says veteran QI leader Dr. Thomas McIlraith.
Clinical
Paring the risk of antibiotic resistance
Stewardship, monitoring, education, and thoughtful de-escalation can help avoid the overuse of sepsis drugs.
Clinical
Preventing sepsis alert fatigue
Quality improvement projects hone the art and science of sensitive and specific warnings.
Clinical
Charting a new course in sepsis management
Quality improvement initiatives help hospitalists navigate the challenges of ward-based sepsis care.
Practice Management
Phoenix Children’s Hospital integrates care from ground up
More than 1,000 physicians in the Phoenix metro area are part of a hospital network with incentive-laden contracts for meeting care and wellness...