Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

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 ...

Larger clinics and those with a lower proportion of African Americans are more likely to enroll in quality improvement programs, according to an article in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.

Quality improvement (QI) programs have rapidly grown in health care over recent years. Despite increasing evidence of successful QI initiatives resulting in improved outcomes, the adoption and ...

Erratum: Real-World Adherence Patterns of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling to Biomarker Recommended Therapies in Patients With Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer A California health care organization ...

A massive quality industrial complex has led to hundreds of measures that are primarily process-focused rather than patient-outcome based. Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly ...

Over the past 30 years, the number of people experiencing heart attacks has decreased by at least 50%, and the likelihood of death from a heart attack has declined by roughly 80%. Research and ...