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A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

August 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This article describes work to conduct systematic reviews of the literature, evaluate promising practices, provide technical assistance to health care organizations and disseminate their findings.

Explaining Michigan

June 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Social scientists describe what worked and why in a successful initiative to reduce central line infections in Michigan ICUs.

The Published Literature on Handoffs in Hospitals

December 1, 2010 | Journal Article

A review of existing research on handoffs in order to inform the improvement and standardization of the handoff process in hospitals found that in existing literature, key concepts remain poorly defined and that patient safety is not analyzed against handoffs' other functions.

Implementation of a Chronic Illness Model for Diabetes Care in a Family Medicine Residency Program

October 1, 2010 | Journal Article

A California collaborative uses the Chronic Care Model to improve education of residents and care of patients with diabetes.

Charted Door-to-Bed Process Flow Chart

February 4, 2011 | Toolkit

St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis improved door to bed, length of stay and patient satisfaction by reducing delays in ED triage and registration.

TCAB Spread

January 1, 2008 | Issue Brief

Nurses are now called to a ???Vitality Huddle??? between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. via the unit's call system. The nurses gather in the workroom near the nurses' station for 10-15 minutes to interact and focus on relationship building.

Flowchart Setup Report

June 4, 2008 | Video/Survey/Poll

In order to improve the process, a new role was created for a resource nurse and the traditional charge nurse role was eliminated.

Mid-Track Process Flow Chart

February 4, 2011 | Toolkit

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center expedited the care of the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) III patients by effectuating a reduction left without being seen rates and overall time to provider.

ETU Report Form

February 4, 2011 | Toolkit

Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital improved patient throughput rates by improving communication between the emergency department (ED) and the receiving inpatient units.

Latest from Aligning Forces for Quality Communities

January 31, 2011 | Story

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is catalyzing change at the local level and RWJF has compiled a selection of videos, reports and other materials to highlight progress and provide Alliance members resources for training and knowledge development.

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