A team approach to reducing infections resulted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) of Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK, receiving the 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award ...

You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the topic of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The issue tops a list of priorities for many heal...

No one in healthcare ever wants to hear about a ­serious clinical adverse event occurring, especially in his or her own hospital, but every clinician and caretaker knows that sometimes, despite be...

Inside: New AHRQ tool to help hospitals better display quality data Malpractice data analysis offers window into surgical error The ideal just culture Indiana hospital involves patien...

All you need to take advantage of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) latest tool is hospital administrative or claims data. Called MONAHRQ (My Own Network, Powered by AHRQ),...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday its Final Rule on Meaningful Use. The rule, intended to spell out exactly what will constitute healthcare parties’ appropria...

The Joint Commission seeks feedback on revisions to the 2010 version of Universal Protocol (Hospital, Critical Access Hospital, Ambulatory Care, and Office-based Surgery programs)....

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