New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

Transitions of care are critical periods when NICU patients are at risk for miscommunication leading to patient harm. This quality improvement project aimed to decrease post-operative hand-off-related ...

Quality improvement activities in healthcare are limited by the substantial time burden associated with manual clinical text review. To address this limitation within an established hospital discharge ...

In the early 1990s, a number of hospitals created rapid-response teams or medical-emergency teams to identify and intervene early in the care of clinically critical patients. The promise of these ...