The Optimizing Obstetric Care Quality Initiative was launched to address persistently elevated obstetric length of stay (LOS), which had drifted two standard deviations above peer benchmarks. Early ...

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 ...

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read ...

Here are three ways hospital department managers can avoid push back or hesitance by employees during new quality improvement projects, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 1.

Quality improvement (QI) programs have rapidly grown in health care over recent years. Despite increasing evidence of successful QI initiatives resulting in improved outcomes, the adoption and ...

A quality improvement toolkit helped hospitals conduct improvement initiatives, although they faced several challenges, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient ...

ROCKVILLE, Md.—Ten medical schools have been selected to participate in a two-year quality improvement project to refine, implement and assess a competency-based obesity education curriculum, The ...

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Memorial Hospital held its second annual Quality Showcase on Thursday, October 19 in the organization’s Brew Barry Conference Center. Clinical and non-clinical departments at ...

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 ...