Accounting for patient perspectives adds value to safety and quality improvement initiatives. Patient experience is a valuable element of addressing patient safety incidents and conducting quality ...

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, ...

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 ...

Delhi's public works and municipal agencies are working intensively to enhance road infrastructure and streamline waste ...

Robert Fenton is the founder and CEO of Qualio, a cloud-based quality management system (eQMS) for life sciences teams. The medical products that save lives every day pass through a critical layer of ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

The town of Normal will be flushing fire hydrants from November 9-16 to improve water quality, and residents are advised to ...

Quality Improvement (QI) plays a pivotal role in advancing patient care and optimizing healthcare workflows. ORControl™, a minute-by-minute coordination system for operating room efficiency, addresses ...

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 ...

State programs and local land trusts preserved land in Erie, Allegany, Westchester, and the Finger Lakes to protect drinking ...

Association Between Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Among Multiethnic Women Diagnosed With Early-Stage Breast Cancer In this paper, we describe ...

Over the past two decades, opioid-related deaths have increased in the United States by six times and the Department of Health and Human Services has declared the opioid crisis a public health ...