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The Quest for Quality: Excellence in the New Era of Care Delivery

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were finalists of the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
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Cultural Transformation in Health Care Settings

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about shaping the culture of their hospitals.
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Defining Impact of a Rapid Response Team: Qualitative Study with Nurses, Physicians and Hospital Administrators

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings.
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The patient handoff: a comprehensive curricular blueprint for resident education to improve continuity of care.

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
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Identifying discrepancies in electronic medical records through pharmacist medication reconciliation.

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identified a significant number of discrepancies between charted medications and actual medications being taken.
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The Triangle Model for evaluating the effect of health information technology on healthcare quality and safety.

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects care delivery.
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Junior Doctors' Reflections on Patient Safety

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about their experiences with patient safety incidents.
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ASHRM Patient Safety Portal

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.
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An Experiment Shows That A Well-Designed Report On Costs And Quality Can Help Consumers Choose High-Value Health Care

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect the likelihood that consumers will make high-value choices.
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The Long-Term Effect of Premier Pay for Performance on Patient Outcomes

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-day mortality rates, suggesting that the right mix of incentives and targets to ensure that pay for per