Transforming a unit’s culture to improve clinical outcomes. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component.

The emergency department serves as the primary driver of admit volume in most hospitals, accounting for more than half of hospital admissions on average. If an ED fails to function efficiently — ...

Although most diseases are well defined, the patient experience for those who have the same condition can differ dramatically for a multitude of reasons. The physical and psychological impact on ...

Medical professionals don’t pursue careers in healthcare out of a love of data entry, but it’s an inescapable daily reality for most, taking time away from focused care and consultations with patients ...

Process mapping is a valuable tool for individuals and businesses aiming to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and maintain operational continuity. By visually representing workflows, you can ...

The comprehensiveness of its approach is noteworthy, as are its implications for hospitalists and for other hospitals. "This is about taking non-value-added steps out of the process and getting rid of ...

The following article is reprinted with permission from Western Pennsylvania Hospital News.Many emergency medicine departments in [Pennsylvania] and throughout the country are experiencing ...

ATLANTA -- October 8, 2008 -- Today, StatCom announced the findings of the 2008 National Survey on Patient Flow Challenges and Technologies, an independent, nationwide survey of more than 200 ...

Process mapping is a vital technique for visualizing and understanding business processes. It allows you to outline each step involved in a workflow, effectively transforming the invisible into the ...