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Dissemination and Implementation: INQRI's Potential Impact

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Read the perspectives of principal investigators from INQRI-funded implementation sites: strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned.

Variation in Surgical Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

March 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Surgical complications vary by hospital setting and surgeon’s specialty.

The Earlier the Longer

November 12, 2012 | Journal Article

Intensive care units should take a rigorous and nuanced approach to planning patient handoffs to improve patient safety and quality of care.

A Multicenter, Phased, Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections in Intensive Care Units

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The success of this nurse-led collaborative underscores the role of nurses in quality improvement.

Patient Safety

A collection of success stories on improving patient safety from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.

How Much Would You Give to Save a Dying Bird?

November 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The author illustrates the challenging relationship between patient advocacy and biomedical research, arguing that both are necessary in order to make progress on the treatment of disease.

Doctor, I’m not comfortable with that order

December 5, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post

Michael Painter discusses human error in health care.

Validity and Usefulness of Members Reports of Implementation Progress in a Quality Improvement Initiative

November 4, 2011 | Journal Article

A 10-minute monthly survey measures progress of a team-based quality improvement intervention.

Is Patient Safety Improving?

February 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This article assesses patient safety indicators (PSIs) over the past decade to examine whether national safety and quality trends have improved. Of the 15 PSIs considered in this study, seven PSIs had increasing annual percentages changes and seven had decreasing annual percentage changes.

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.

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