Reducing the Incidence of Uncontrolled Hypertension Through Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, April 27, 2021

A quality improvement project at A & M Healthcare Clinic.

Five Tips for Smooth Adoption of Safer Enteral Connectors

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, April 26, 2021

Nebraska Medicine's ENFit conversion designed to improve patient safety.

Infection Prevention: Looking to the Future While Tending to the Present

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, April 19, 2021

COVID-19 required APIC to staff up, but there were good reasons to develop a pipeline for infection prevention even before the pandemic. 

Adopting Gold-Standard Procedures During COVID-19

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, April 14, 2021

Doctors, healthcare organizations, and even technology providers have found ways to work with or through the limitations of social distancing, though they’re not happy about it.

Improving Interoperability

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, April 14, 2021

How physicians can support better technology development.

Crossing the Digital Divide for SDOH

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March 23, 2021

If patients aren't equipped to navigate the complexities of the healthcare system, they may struggle to get the help they need, adhere to medications, or deal with other complications that can reduce their quality of care.

Advance Care Planning: A Quality and Patient Safety Must

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March 23, 2021

Advance care planning is an underrecognized issue, but its status has been elevated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Solving Fragmented Behavioral Healthcare With Data

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March 23, 2021

Transparency is needed to connect more patients with critical services.

Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship: AAAHC Publishes New Toolkit

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March 23, 2021

The toolkit offers a core elements checklist for assessing policies and procedures, treatment recommendations in primary care taken from the CDC, and a flow chart that maps out considerations for surgical procedures.

New Cost to Paying Ransom on Cyberattacks

PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March 5, 2021

Evolving threats, new guidance add to need for healthcare cybersecurity.

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