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.
Patient Safety and Outcomes
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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.
Improving the Safety of Patient Care by Looking at the Airline Industry
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
Supporting Regional Response Team Learning Networks
June 3, 2010 | Program Result Report
In December 2005 RWJF funded nine hospital associations and health care systems with grants of up to $150,000 apiece for each to work with at least 25 of their member hospitals to establish rapid response teams.
Prevention of Hospital Falls
May 27, 2010 | Program Result Report
IHI published on its Web site a guide with four "promising" approaches to help hospital staff identify patients at risk for serious injury from a fall and to implement interventions to prevent or mitigate fall-related injuries.
Risk Managers, Physicians, and Disclosure of Harmful Medical Errors
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians are encouraged to disclose medical errors to patients, which often requires close collaboration between physicians and risk managers.
Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study analyzed 127 research studies spanning 59 years to find a positive correlation between physician communication skills, as well as physician training in communication skills and patient adherence to treatment recommendations.
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations for COPD and Pneumonia
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The Role of Physician and Practice Characteristics.
Health Care Without Harm's Research Collaborative
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
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.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Risk
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Current efforts to improve the cost-effectiveness of health care focus on assessing accurately the value of technologically complex, costly medical treatments for individual patients and society. These efforts universally acknowledge that the determ ...