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 ...

Eight hospitals have received the Vermont Oxford Network Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement for their work caring for infants. The award is given to VON member teams who demonstrate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following article is written by Naomi Kuznets, PhD, senior director and general manager of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, and comes from the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Improve healthcare operations and leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance processes. The online Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement will help you hone your analytical skills to ...

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 ...

Recent Advances in the Development of Biomarkers and Chemoradiotherapeutic Approaches for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Quality improvement initiatives and health services research are often used to target ...

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 ...