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Protocol Violations, Missed Transfusions among Blood Delivery Errors
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Toughest Talk: Medical Students Learn to Discuss Patients’ Wishes for End-of-Life Care
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Broad-Based La Crosse Initiative Aims for National Model vs. Addiction
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement will lead Alliance to HEAL (Halting the Effects of Addiction Locally), a program in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, that will seek to devise and demonstrate a successful method to attack opioid addiction.
Hand Sanitizer Cut Back on Young Children’s Sick Days More than Washing, Study Says
Researchers in Spain found that children who cleaned their hands with sanitizer instead of soap and water reduced their missed days of school, respiratory infections, and antibiotic prescriptions.
Media Advisory: 2018 IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
The 2018 IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care provides the country’s best platform to hear about successes and challenges and to harness evidence-based solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing health and health care today.
More Than a Third of Nurses Have PTSD; a Third of Doctors Are Burned Out. What Are We Doing About It?
Burnout is common, as are mental health concerns and suicide, and their costs extend to patients and the system as a whole. In the U.S., these concerns recently culminated in a movement that proposes a holistic approach to health care wellness and enga…
Every Doctor You’ve Admired Has Dealt with Burnout
There is a physician burnout epidemic in the US.
QI Project Management
This tool describes strategies to effectively manage quality improvement projects, specific ideas to try within each strategy, and offers a workspace for you to note your next steps to implement the strategy.
QI Project Charter
The QI project charter provides a rationale and roadmap for the team’s improvement work that can be used to clarify thinking about what needs to be done and why. The charter helps keep the focus on a specific opportunity or problem and identifies the m…
