Facilitators and Challenges to Conducting Interdisciplinary Research
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Interdisciplinary research teams create synergies to solve problems and improve health care.
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Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
Gerri Lamb, Leading an Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative Project
May 28, 2009 | Story
Lamb is working to improve care coordination for vulnerable patients.
Health Care Without Harm's Research Collaborative
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
Preventing Bloodstream Infections
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Over the past decade, advances in the quality of care have been slow. One area of success, however, has been in combating central line–associated bloodstream infections.
Improving the Safety of Patient Care by Looking at the Airline Industry
December 1, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.
The High-Value Health Care Project
September 28, 2011 | Program Result
The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.
Patients, Providers and Employers Working Together to Improve the Quality of Health Care
August 8, 2011 | Video/Story
Aligning Forces for Quality takes root in Humboldt County, Calif.
Learning Accountability for Patient Outcomes
July 14, 2010 | Commentary
In this commentary, Dr. Pronovost calls for greater accountability for patient safety within the U.S. health care system. He emphasizes the role of teamwork in reducing CLABSI and other preventable infections.
Measures to Market
November 1, 2006 | Report
From 2004 to 2006 a team of consultants funded through the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington researched business models capable of supporting physician performance reporting systems.