This document offers selected resources for clinicians and health care administrators to take action on opioid and pain management and opioid use disorder (OUD), organized into three categories: Patient Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment; Prov…
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A Holistic Approach to Treating Acute Pain
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Targeting Instances of Sepsis at Huntsville Hospital
Stephen Claypool, MD, outlines how Huntsville Hospital and POC Advisor partnered to build upon the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI’s) “Surviving Sepsis Campaign” to help decrease sepsis-related deaths within the hospital.
Clinical Transformation Must Be Rooted In Patients’ Realities—And The Evidence Base
To improve care and save lives, Well Being Trust is working with Providence St. Joseph Health, other leading health systems, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to take the first steps to transform the clinical care system.
Sanitizing Regimen can Reduce Post-Hospital MRSA Infections, Study Shows
This article contains recommendations for how adults can prevent MRSA infections after hospital discharge and includes MRSA infection data from IHI.
IHI’s Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 10–16, Focuses on Outpatient Safety
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WIHI: How to Speak So Leaders Will Listen
February 21, 2019 | How much thought and preparation go into how you pitch new ideas and initiatives to leaders in your organization? If you’ve been frustrated by lack of support or buy-in from a leader, it’s possible that you did not win that person o…
2019 IHI Summit Marks 20 Years of Transforming Primary Care
2019 Summit Media Alert
What Is Age-Friendly Health Care?
In this article, Alice Bonner provides commentary on IHI’s Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative. “Age friendly is about older adults, but it’s also really about families and communities. Age friendly means a health system that is supportive and leads…
300 Health Care Workers Trained in Sepsis Care
This article discusses the National Patient Safety Collaborative (NPSC), a partnership between IHI and the Hamad Healthcare Quality institute. The NPSC aims to raise safety standards across the country’s public healthcare sector.
