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, ...
Some hospitals have videotaped medical procedures as part of quality improvement initiatives. While the idea of healthcare workers being videotaped may conjure thoughts of “Big Brother” and fears of ...
Some hospitals have videotaped medical procedures as part of quality improvement initiatives. While the idea of healthcare workers being videotaped may conjure thoughts of “Big Brother” and fears of ...
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 ...
Quality improvement (QI) in health care is an activity in which intentional change in processes and systems of care is attempted in a methodical, reflective and iterative manner in order to improve ...
Almost two decades ago, the landmark report “To Err is Human” compelled healthcare to address the large numbers of hospitalized patients experiencing preventable harm. Concurrently, it became clear ...
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 ...
In the early 1990s, a number of hospitals created rapid-response teams or medical-emergency teams to identify and intervene early in the care of clinically critical patients. The promise of these ...
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) report disproportionally worse cancer mortality. Current global cancer control efforts focus predominantly on expanding access to multimodality treatment for ...
Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...
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 ...