Quality improvement (QI) in health care is an activity in which intentional change in processes and systems of care is attempted in a methodical, reflective and iterative manner in order to improve ...

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—A significant challenge in quality improvement is demonstrating the return on investment. But a team working in London as part of the country’s National Health Service has developed a ...

Effective management of quality improvement initiatives includes leadership, teamwork, planning, and pace setting. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed a QI Project Management Tool ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Division of Watershed Stewardship is accepting project proposals for matching grants for community water quality improvement ...

Next-generation technologies and diagnostic tests offer the promise of improved cancer care, but they also present challenges related to ensuring widespread access to these innovations. To ensure ...

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) report disproportionally worse cancer mortality. Current global cancer control efforts focus predominantly on expanding access to multimodality treatment for ...

MARYLAND (WBFF) -- On Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has awarded $38.4 million to Maryland for water quality improvement projects to address wastewater treatment and ...

Oncologists face increasing complexity in the delivery of high-quality cancer care. Challenges arise from the simultaneous rapid expansion of the armamentarium of anticancer treatments with ...