Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

WIHI: Building the Will and Skill to Be a Clinical Improver

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November 8, 2018 | Quality improvement knowledge can unite clinicians in the common pursuit of better clinical decision making and encourage more clinicians to take the lead with improving care delivery.

IHI Psychology of Change Framework

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This white paper is a guide for all leaders interested in understanding the underlying psychology of change and leveraging its power to impact quality improvement efforts: to achieve breakthrough results, sustainably, at scale.

Report: Global Health Care Must Improve Quality to Save Lives

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Quality Improvement Campaign Reduces SSIs in Hip, Knee Arthroplasties

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Home Care and Safety: A Difficult Match

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Health Care’s Physician Burnout: Is AI The Answer?

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Leading Quality Across a System

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This article describes five core drivers for effective health care chief quality officers (CQOs) in their role of overseeing and aligning quality efforts within and across health care systems.

Effectiveness of a Multistate Quality Improvement Campaign in Reducing Risk of Surgical Site Infections Following Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

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This article provides an assessment of IHI’s Project JOINTS initiative, a multistate QI campaign to promote adoption of evidence-based practices to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) following hip and knee arthroplasty.

WIHI: Lowering Readmissions, Reducing Disparities

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October 25, 2018 | Initiatives to reduce avoidable readmissions are the norm in US health systems today. What happens when hospitals and health systems look beyond to the non-clinical issues upstream that have a big impact on rehospitalizations?

Brazil Is in 2nd Place in Cesarean Sections and Movement Seeks to Value Normal Delivery

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