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June 29, 2010 | Program Result
The SQUIRE guidelines for publishing research on quality improvement support complete, accurate, and transparent reporting, and are intended to speed development of the field.
June 1, 2008 | Toolkit
An off-site, nurse-led heart failure clinic was created to help heart failure patients better control and self-manage their disease post-hospitalization.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Staff combined information from three existing order sets into a single, comprehensive cardiology admission order set to reduce provider confusion and help the hospital reach regular compliance rates of 90 to 100% for evidence-based cardiac measures.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Mich., developed a systemwide universal discharge instruction form, merging general discharge instructions with cardiac-specific discharge instructions for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure.
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article discusses the current impasse in the field of quality measurement and what is needed to overcome this deadlock.
March 1, 2010 | Book
Palliative Care:Transforming the Care of Serious Illness is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is changing the way Americans deal with serious illness.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.
August 22, 2008 | Program Result
The National Quality Forum used its national consensus process to create a framework and a set of preferred practices for quality palliative care that apply across all health care settings and professions.