Patient safety events, especially preventable ones, are on the rise at healthcare organizations. Meanwhile, frontline staff are burned out, and the current fiscal environment is exerting pressure on ...

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, ...

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 ...

An evaluation of 50 surgical QI projects found that only one scored above 70% on criteria for a well-conducted effort, with major deficits in the critical early "front-end" planning stage. The new ...

The author shares observations on several common factors across various clinical settings that can determine success or failure in quality improvement. I have spent more than 15 years working with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quality management is a mature practice at state agencies. However, transitioning to paperless and digital delivery of design information exposes a vulnerability in how quality management is ...

The project was a collaboration between the City of Fishers, City of Noblesville, Hamilton County and the Indiana Department ...