While many physician assistant students learn about quality improvement projects during clinical rotations, few actually participate, according to the results of a study presented at the American ...

Research and quality improvement projects using electronic clinical information need to consider sustainability to “ensure their long-term success,” according to a study in Generating Evidence and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Next-generation technologies and diagnostic tests offer the promise of improved cancer care, but they also ...

A nurse practitioner-led triage intervention reduces wait and total encounter times; however, it has no effect on patient satisfaction rates, a quality improvement project reports.

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read ...

Within a year of initiation, a multidisciplinary project to improve screening and treatment for iron deficiency in pregnancy resulted in a sixfold rise in screening rates for iron deficiency in ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

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 ...

A quality improvement toolkit helped hospitals conduct improvement initiatives, although they faced several challenges, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cardiac arrest prevention quality improvement program provided sustained benefits in participating hospitals.