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Clinical Care
Yale New Haven Health System Honored for Quality ImprovementThe American Hospital Association award recognizes healthcare leadership and innovation in improving quality and advancing health in communities.
Clinical Care
Know What Circumstances Require External Peer ReviewExternal peer review providers help facilitate this process, connecting organizations in need of external peer review with peers who provide...
Payer
Though Millions Are at Risk for Diabetes, Medicare Struggles to Expand Prevention ProgramOut of an estimated 16 million Medicare beneficiaries whose excess weight and risky A1c level make them eligible, only 3,600...
Clinical Care
Influx of Medical School Students Could Overwhelm Montana Resources, Program Leaders WarnTwo medical schools vie to open in Montana, highlighting the rapid spread of for-profit schools and their previously tarnished business...
Clinical Care
AORN Updates Skin Antisepsis Guidelines: What This Means for OrganizationsProfessional guidelines are out in the field for certain subsets of patients to receive nasal decolonization.
Clinical Care
Reduce Outcome Bias Through Focused Reviewer QuestionsA useful strategy to reduce outcome bias is to have the screener provide case-specific questions for the reviewer that are...
Human Resources
Tips for Proctors: Things They Should and Shouldn't Do Guidelines to help objectively assess a practitioner's clinical competence.
Clinical Care
Pandemic Leads Doctors to Rethink Unnecessary TreatmentNumerous studies have shown that overtreatment causes unnecessary suffering and billions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs.
Strategy
Reflections After a Decade: Duke LifePoint Healthcare's Shared Vision for Quality CareDavid Dill, president and CEO of LifePoint Health, and William Fulkerson Jr., MD, executive vice president for Duke University Health...
Clinical Care
Physician Leader: Culture Critical to Achieving Health System GoalsCulture plays a pivotal role in essential areas such as physician enterprise and patient safety, Tower Health executive says.
Strategy
Improving Health LiteracyThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recommends that healthcare professionals use health literacy universal precautions with all patients.
Clinical Care
Full Speed Ahead: CMS Resumes Most SurveysThe newest memo on surveys ? QSO-21-16-Hospitals, "Resuming Hospital Survey Activities Following 30-day Restrictions"? was posted online March 26 but...