To meet increasing demand for cancer genetic testing and improve value-based cancer care delivery, National Cancer Centre Singapore restructured the Cancer Genetics Service in 2014. Care delivery ...

Quality Improvement Methods Up Appropriate Antibiotic Rx Quality improvement (QI) methods can be used to rapidly implement national guidelines relating to appropriate first-line antibiotic therapy for ...

Using quality improvement measures in hospitals, researchers have found a way to reduce kidney injury in patients undergoing a procedure with contrast dye. Currently, 7-15 percent of these patients ...

The Department of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine is committed in our pursuit of high-value health care. Quality improvement is a continuous process that drives our efforts. Our Quality ...

A quality improvement (QI) intervention can improve adherence to pediatric septic shock guidelines, and possibly improve mortality, according to a study by researchers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ...

Debra Lotstein ([email protected]) is a research scientist at RAND in Santa Monica, California, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

Quality control starts with an inspection of the finished product, but this method does not affect quality. For continuous quality improvements, you have to combine the inspection with methods that ...