A quality improvement initiative improved rates of lipid screening among children and adolescents and may improve downstream ...

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, ...

Quality improvement (QI) in health care is an activity in which intentional change in processes and systems of care is attempted in a methodical, reflective and iterative manner in order to improve ...

Courage was a key theme at this year’s annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum as speakers urged attendees to oppose the quality and access compromises likely to come amid | The annual ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Within a year of initiation, a multidisciplinary project to improve screening and treatment for iron deficiency in pregnancy resulted in a six-fold rise in screening rates for iron deficiency in ...

For more than a century, the American health care sector has wrestled with the question of how best to improve the quality of the care it provides. Countless reports, commissions, government ...

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 ...

Over the past two decades, opioid-related deaths have increased in the United States by six times and the Department of Health and Human Services has declared the opioid crisis a public health ...