Registered Nurses Participate in Presenting Their Patients During Morning Rounds
June 4, 2008 | Story
Massachusetts General Hospital kept patient charts at the patients' bedsides, where they were easily accessed and updated.
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Shifting Nurse Schedules to Match ED Demand
June 4, 2008 | Story
This ensures that at the peak time of the day, the ED has the most nurses, and the number of nurses remains in proportion to the number of patients.
Emergency Department Nurse Recruitment and Retention
June 4, 2008 | Story
A team was assembled to develop an initiative to improve nurse recruitment and retention, including internal and external recruitment strategies, comprehensive training, and a mentoring program for new ED nurses.
Transforming Care at the Bedside
June 10, 2008 | Story
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago empowers nurses by having them test and implement changes they think will improve patient care and enhance patient and nursing staff satisfaction.
Reductions in Medicare and Medicaid Affects Care of the Uninsured
September 1, 1998 | Program Result
During 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health explored the impact of reductions in Medicare and Medicaid spending on the levels of uncompensated care that hospitals provide to the medically indigent.
How We Die
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
George Washington University's Center to Improve Care of the Dying convened a panel of 31 experts to review current knowledge about measuring quality of care at the end of life and develop a consensus on a draft toolkit of measurement.
Lots of Jobs and Lots of Eager Workers: What Went Wrong?
February 1, 1998 | Program Result
Health Careers Center, an affiliate of the Greater New York Hospital Association, developed a program to offset an anticipated shortage of health care workers in New York City in the early 1990s.
Unexpected Returns
January 1, 1997 | Book
The findings and lessons from a large, multiyear research and demonstration project that investigated the care provided to critically ill hospitalized patients at the end of life are presented in this chapter of the RWJF Anthology.
Screening Hospital Patients for Alcohol Problems is Just What the Doctor Ordered
April 1, 1997 | Program Result
Between July 1992 and October 1995, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene of Albany, N.Y., evaluated the performance of the New York State Hospital Intervention Service (HIS), which screens hospital patients for alcohol problems and conducts a brief intervention or refers them to treatment.
Why are Hospital Costs Lower in Canada Where Hospital Stays Last Longer?
November 1, 1996 | Program Result
The University of Michigan Medical School compared the utilization of all diagnostic imaging and selected laboratory tests for patients from eight hospitals in Canada and the United States.