Research and quality improvement projects using electronic clinical information need to consider sustainability to “ensure their long-term success,” according to a study in Generating Evidence and ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) and Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare are implementing Wolters Kluwer Health’s Ovid® Synthesis Clinical Evidence ...

Shot of a group of medical professionals walking down a hospital corridor Survey findings highlight strategies to increase the number of NP preceptors at Cleveland Clinic. A quality improvement (QI) ...

The author shares observations on several common factors across various clinical settings that can determine success or failure in quality improvement. I have spent more than 15 years working with ...

Patient safety events, especially preventable ones, are on the rise at healthcare organizations. Meanwhile, frontline staff are burned out, and the current fiscal environment is exerting pressure on ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

A key step for researchers developing a human subjects research study is submission of a protocol to the Internal Review Board (IRB). However, quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) projects do ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jewish General Hospital in Montreal had a problem with its patient data: Despite having plenty of it, the process of extracting insights that improved patient care was arduous and onerous. It has a ...