Article-at-a-Glance Background Two popular quality improvement (QI) approaches in health
care are Lean and Six Sigma. Hospitals continue to adopt these QI approaches—or the …

Chinese translation Background: Reducing length of stay (LOS) has been a priority for
hospitals and health care systems. However, there is concern that this reduction may result …

Background With 1–2% of patients leaving the hospital against medical advice (AMA), the
potential for these patients to suffer adverse health outcomes is of major concern. Objective …

Background Despite considerable efforts to improve healthcare quality and patient safety,
broad measures of patient outcomes show little improvement. Many factors, including limited …

We demonstrate, for the first time, a robust novel polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) chip that can
provide controlled pulsatile release of DNA based molecules, proteins and oligonucleotides …

Study Objective. To analyze and compare four different methods of detecting medication
misadventures in order to determine the optimal system for reporting clinically observed …

Variation in how hospitals perform on similar quality improvement (QI) efforts argues for a
need to understand how different organizational characteristics affect QI performance. The …

Background Increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) with integrated alerting
systems is a key initiative for improving patient safety. Considering the variety of dynamically …

Background: Hospital-based palliative care consultation is consistently associated with
reduced hospitalization costs and more importantly with improved patient quality of life. As …

Health System, the health care field has steadily increased its understanding of adverse
drug events (ADEs). 1 Initially, research in the area focused on determining the rate of …