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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A quality improvement program reduced antibiotic use and strengthened antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals, ...

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 ...

Implementing an effective quality improvement program is not only essential to achieving accreditation by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care but also can put surgery centers on ...

DETROIT and ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a paper published today in the professional health care journal, "Health Affairs," Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the University ...

Quality improvement programs markedly increase sleep apnea testing in stroke patients, showing effective ways to improve guideline-based care. A structured quality improvement (QI) program led to a ...

Quality improvement programs are often effective at reducing hospital readmissions, especially among patients with certain ailments. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

A scalable chronic kidney disease (CKD) quality improvement intervention demonstrated feasibility, decreased hospitalization, and reduced costs. These preliminary results support innovation in CKD by ...

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 ...

Federal value-based payment programs require primary care practices to conduct quality improvement activities, informed by the electronic reports on clinical quality measures that their electronic ...