Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Supported by a grant from Merck for Mothers, IHI seeks to spread evidence-based practices and address birth equity.

The Hospital Getúlio Vargas (HGV) was able to reduce the density of incidence of urinary tract infection in patients hospitalized in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) by more than 50 percent.

To offer new medical residents insight on the intangible aspects of practice, AMA Wire spoke with some of the nation’s top physicians about the lessons they wish they had known as new residents. This article summarizes their top medical residency advic…

August 9, 2018 | Most hospitals are understandably preoccupied with patient experience scores. But can those same scores help guide an organization to the aims and values it hopes to achieve?

OR Today article, August 1, 2018, summarizes trends in patient safety in perioperative areas and offers tips and advice from safety and clinical experts.

This article reviews progress to date to advance patient safety in the US in five essential areas of health care, as first identified in 2009 by the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute.

Article from Hospital Peer Review Online

This article highlights the work of Projeto Parto Adequado

NEJM Catalyst article

This article summarizes five strategies to improve the safety of care in home health setting, as detailed in a new report from IHI.