The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, ...

Recent legislative action and private sector innovation, driven by the unsustainability of the current system, may gradually create a business case for performance improvement. Between 2007 and 2009, ...

The following article is written by Naomi Kuznets, PhD, senior director and general manager of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, and comes from the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement ...

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have issued the first-ever performance and quality metrics for the treatment of patients with valvular and structural heart ...

Saint Louis University's health care quality and performance excellence graduate certificate is for students who want to focus on areas of health operations management, including quality improvement, ...

Humankind has been focused on quality and quality improvement for centuries, and much progress has been made in virtually every arena of society. With some exceptions, quality of life is better than ...

Esra Eren Bayindir, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Jonas Schreyögg ([email protected]), University of Hamburg. Hospital quality has been measured and made publicly available for decades 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, ...

The committee’s selection of performance measures began with identifying leading performance measure sets 1 and classifying these measures within nationally endorsed frameworks for quality assessment ...