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Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care

Institute of Medicine Examines the safety of health IT products and their effects on patient safety. Chapters two, four, and seven discuss safety specific to small practices and ...

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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Describes a survey tool used to assess the safety culture of a hospital as a whole, or for specific units within hospitals, as well as to ...

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Measuring and Improving the Quality of Care in Rural Minnesota Hospitals

Center for Rural Policy and Development Describes national initiatives to improve the quality of care and patient safety, along with the challenges of measuring quality of care in ...

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Critical Access Hospital Quality Improvement Activities and Reporting on Quality Measures: Results of the 2007 National CAH Survey

Flex Monitoring Team Describes a broad range of quality improvement initiatives that critical access hospitals (CAHs) are involved in with patient safety and medication safety in ...

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Implementing a Program of Patient Safety in Small Rural Hospitals: Findings and Trends in Medication Error Reporting from 25 Critical Access Hospitals

Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research Describes the primary aim of the grant project which was to develop the infrastructure necessary for reporting and analyzing medication ...

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Critical Access Hospital Patient Safety Priorities and Initiatives: Results of the 2004 National CAH Survey

Flex Monitoring Team Describes patient safety activities at critical access hospitals (CAHs) based on a 2004 survey of 474 CAH administrators. Describes the patient safety priorities ...

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Quality Reporting Matrix

Technical Assistance and Services Center Provides information on the following national quality reporting initiatives: Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project; Partnership for ...

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Quality Improvement Organizations and Flex: Collaborating for Quality Improvement

Jennifer Lundblad, President and Chief Executive Officer, Stratis Health, President, American Health Quality Association (AHQA) Outlines how Flex programs can partner with other ...

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The Nevada Flex Program, The Hospital Strength Index, and Indiana Quality Reporting and Benchmarking

John Packham, Director of Health Policy Research, Flex Coordinator, Center for Education and Health Services Outreach, University of Nevada School of Medicine Michael Topchik, Vice President, iVantage Health ...

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HCAHPS

Bill Sexton, Chief Executive Officer, Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital, Wisconsin Discusses the importance of publicly reporting HCAHPS, the core quality measures, value-based ...

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