Just over 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine released two seminal reports on the need to improve healthcare quality—one ...

In recent years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Department of Defense have striven to optimize the lessons learned regarding multiple initiatives for reducing medical errors.

Your team cannot always predict which patients will develop a surgical site infection, but you can learn from them when they occur. To improve, perioperative teams need a structured approach to ...

While debate continues about its exact numeric value, euglycemia should be maintained perioperatively to prevent surgical site infection. Research suggests an association between hyperglycemia and ...

Surgical skin preparation is an important strategy to prevent surgical site infection. Adequate surgical skin preparation reduces the burden of skin microorganisms prior to incision. Though it seems ...

Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis is an important strategy to prevent surgical site infection. Appropriate selection, dosing, and redosing ensure that the antibiotic concentration in surgical ...

TeamSTEPPS Instructor Guide. [TeamSTEPPS™: Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety; developed by the Department of Defense and published by the Agency for Healthcare Research ...

There is a growing need for public and private health and social services programs to serve people with disabilities. Rehabilitation services may include medical or surgical therapy, environmental ...

In 2021, the top 1 percent of people with high expenses accounted for 24 percent of all healthcare expenditures, while the bottom 50 percent of people with high expenses accounted for less than 3 ...

As described in Chapter 1, the elements for organizational change include leadership, data, a planning process, and resources. This chapter is about gathering data and measuring your clinic's capacity ...

The bridge is built. Now comes the part where your patient-centered interactions result in the patient going to a community-based resource that fits their need. Even healthy people who are not ...

Post-event evacuations have occurred either following Advanced Warning Events (i.e., if the decision was made to shelter-in-place during the event, but subsequent damage was sufficient to necessitate ...