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 ...
As hospitals and health systems face growing financial pressures to maintain a certain level of clinical quality, executives are leaning on internal quality improvement programs to keep their care in ...
When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...
3 Easy Steps to a More Effective Quality Improvement Program Implementing an effective quality improvement program is not only essential to achieving accreditation by the Accreditation Association of ...
The mission of Research Integrity & Security and the IRB is to verify and promote the continual ethical conduct of research. The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) has a quality improvement plan ...
Large-scale transformation of the US healthcare system will require multiple interventions and tools implemented together. Nested within a growing national consensus that the performance of the US ...
Improving quality remains a perennial challenge for hospitals across America constantly facing cost and regulatory pressures. For more than 110 years, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has ...
CMS seeks to combine various Medicare quality improvement programs under a single contract worth up to $25 billion, the agency announced May 15. “CMS is making great strides in improving care for ...
From required Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicators, hospitals now ...
Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...
This article evaluates a quality improvement program for improving guideline-consistent cervical cancer screening practices in an urban safety net clinic. Quality improvement initiatives that combine ...