Many hospitals and health systems are turning their attention to quality to improve patient care and avoid financial penalties for issues such as preventable readmissions and infections. While the ...

The authors discuss a simple strategy for payers to ensure more patients with type 2 diabetes achieve control of A1C. Possibly the first treatment guidelines and the precursors to quality metrics ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

Objective: To examine whether it matters, in terms of quality improvement initiatives and access to commercial networks, whether states contract with Medicaid-dominant or commercial managed care plans ...

For the money spent on health care in the United States, far better quality of care should be expected. The Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth have created the State Quality Improvement Institute to ...

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, ...

New AI Quality Management certification helps professionals integrate artificial intelligence into quality improvement, ...

Improving primary care quality is a national priority, but little is known about the extent to which small- to medium-size practices use quality improvement strategies to improve care. This is ...

The A1 medical/surgical unit at Mercy Health-Anderson Hospital in Cincinnati reduced its fall rate from 10 falls per 1,000 patient days to two falls per 1,000 patient days over three years through a ...

Quality improvement is an integral part of anesthesia practice success, according to Spiro G. Spanakis, DO, of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center. Anesthesia Business Consultants ...

Anne Dean, RN, BSN, LRM, CEO and co-founder of The ADA Group, consultants for ambulatory development and regulatory compliance, shares seven quality improvement strategies based on the results of CMS ...

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 ...