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Quality and Performance Improvement

Results for Quality and Performance Improvement

Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Provides evidence to help hospital officials and architects design safer, high quality hospitals. ...

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Research, Statistics, Data & Systems

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Contains data and analysis of recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices. The National Health Statistics Group tracks ...

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Healthy People

United States Department of Health and Human Services Looks at the leading Health Indicators (LHIs) established by Healthy People 2010 is be used to measure the health of the Nation ...

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Looks at the measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data. ...

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Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Explains the need for increased transparency of information about hospital performance, and reimbursement linked to performance, ...

Resources - tmorton - 2013-01-22 14:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Transforming Care at the Bedside

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Explains the urgent need for change on the nation's medical/surgical units. Through this work, IHI is developing models of care at the ...

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To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System

Institute of Medicine Lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors. Concluding that the ...

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Quality Through Collaboration - The Future of Rural Health

Assessed the quality of health care in rural areas; developed a conceptual framework for a core set of services and infrastructure necessary to deliver those services to rural communities; recommended priority objectives and changes in policies and ...

Resources - tmorton - 2012-04-05 15:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Physicians Want To Learn from Medical Mistakes but Say Current Error-reporting Systems Are Inadequate

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Looks at the perception that U.S. doctors are unwilling to report medical errors and learn how to prevent them. ...

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Translating Recommendations Into Reality: Community Voices

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Examines the importance of integrating voices from all communities, including those with mixed incomes, differing races and ethnicities, and ...

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