A massive quality industrial complex has led to hundreds of measures that are primarily process-focused rather than patient-outcome based.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

Accounting for patient perspectives adds value to safety and quality improvement initiatives. Patient experience is a valuable element of addressing patient safety incidents and conducting quality ...

We can’t rely on large datasets and apps alone to give everyone a voice in health care: local support and action is equally important, write Chris Graham and Angela Coulter The NHS 10 year health plan ...

A scalable chronic kidney disease (CKD) quality improvement intervention demonstrated feasibility, decreased hospitalization, and reduced costs. These preliminary results support innovation in CKD by ...

“Quality is Job 1.” That slogan, which Ford Motor Company used for decades, applies more than ever to healthcare. That’s nothing new, of course. The federal government has been championing quality ...

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

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