Objectives Quality collaboratives improve quality of care at the hospital and collaborative levels, but less is understood ...

To meet increasing demand for cancer genetic testing and improve value-based cancer care delivery, National Cancer Centre Singapore restructured the Cancer Genetics Service in 2014. Care delivery ...

(HealthDay)—Implementation of quality improvement (QI) methods can improve timely administration of short-acting β-agonists (SABAs) for acute asthma in a pediatric emergency department, according to a ...

Debra Lotstein ([email protected]) is a research scientist at RAND in Santa Monica, California, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of ...

Humankind has been focused on quality and quality improvement for centuries, and much progress has been made in virtually every arena of society. With some exceptions, quality of life is better than ...

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 ...

Quality Improvement Methods Up Appropriate Antibiotic Rx Quality improvement (QI) methods can be used to rapidly implement national guidelines relating to appropriate first-line antibiotic therapy for ...

A quality improvement (QI) intervention can improve adherence to pediatric septic shock guidelines, and possibly improve mortality, according to a study by researchers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ...

Owing to a rise in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC, stage ⩾2) among very low birth weight (VLBW, birth weight <1500 g) infants from 4% in 2005 to 2006 to 10% in 2007 to 2008, we developed and ...

Quality improvement strategies increased appropriate prescription of antibiotics in a children’s hospital emergency department from 0 percent to 100 percent in six months, according to a study in ...

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, ...