This article, published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, reports methods and results of Alabama's continuous quality improvement (CQI) project and lessons learned in developing ...

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 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

In the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, quality and safety are at the core of everything we do. Our mission is to provide the highest standard of care to women through continuous quality ...

Over the last decade, Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System, which merged on Oct. 1, 2013 with Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare to form Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit ...

Long-term care in the United States is at a crossroads. Workforce shortages, economic uncertainty, rising resident acuity, regulatory pressure, and public ...

To give professionals interested in health care an opportunity to develop valuable skills in business, management and quality improvement in health care delivery, Purdue University’s College of Health ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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, ...