A pilot program at Parkland Health uses “courtesy and respect” stickers on hand sanitizer dispensers to make respectful ...

NYU Langone Health’s Patient Experience Book Club demonstrates how simple, low-cost initiatives can foster meaningful connections among health care workers while improving professional well-being ...

Commentary from quality and safety leaders on the persistence of adverse events in care delivery — and where health care organizations should go from here.

For the past 25 years in Michigan, the Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs) have taken a cooperative bottom-up approach to health care quality improvement. Made up of physician organizations and ...

After treating more than 21,000 low-risk patients in low-risk surgeries across multiple specialties over a 41-month period, no increased unplanned returns to the operating room or hospital admissions ...

As communities develop targeted programs to improve access to and administration of vaccines in underserved populations, the Vaccine Equity Index (VEI) can be applied as a simple and objective method ...

An analysis of the systems in Massachusetts (USA), the Netherlands, Norway, and England (UK) reveals structural differences and variation in emphasis on programs used to effect value in care delivery.

Integrated pain management programs are key to fighting opioid abuse, but they face significant challenges in financing, access, and public understanding.

UNC Health undertook a systemwide quantitative and qualitative assessment of coworkers to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.

Racism, cultural mistrust, miscommunication, chronic illness bred by limited food and living choices, and lived experience bind together communities of color as disparate as the Navajo Nation and ...

A protocol that can be used by any acute health care institution of any size to determine whether it is in a crisis state, which would allow consistency of approach at the national level. Following ...