Doctor, I’m not comfortable with that order
December 5, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Michael Painter discusses human error in health care.
Patient Safety and Outcomes
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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.
National Committee for Quality Assurance
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NCQA, with a grant from Pioneer, will evaluate a new measurement tool that focuses on improving the health outcomes of patients with heart disease and diabetes.
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.
PatientsLikeMe
February 25, 2013 | Grantee
PatientsLikeMe is an established network for patients who want to monitor their health, improve their outcomes, and contribute to medical research and discovery.
Health Care Without Harm
January 29, 2013 | Grantee
Evaluating the impact of green initiatives on patient and worker health.
Trends in Resistance to Carbapenems and Third-Generation Cephalosporins among Clinical Isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States, 1999-2010
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Increases in the prevalence of drug-resistant pneumonia present a major infection control challenge for public health.
PatientsLikeMe Calls For Researcher Participation in New Open Research Exchange™ Platform
May 20, 2013 | News Release
PatientsLikeMe names scientific advisory board for world's first open-participation research platform for patient-centered health outcome measures
Introducing a New Way to Measure Health Care Quality
April 18, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
With support from Pioneer, NCQA and Archimedes, Inc., will develop and test the Global Cardiovascular Risk (GCVR) score over the coming months.
NCQA To Test Pioneering Way to Measure Quality, Foster Wider Use of Prevention Strategies
April 9, 2013 | News Release
NCQA and RWJF announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention.