A recent New Jersey Supreme Court ruling has concluded that hospitals' internal review reports written after adverse events occur should remain...
NJ court says hospitals can keep internal error reviews private
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Quality Improvement
Hospital Quality Initiatives Save Nearly $1.5B
In 2012, more than 1,500 hospitals participated with the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) in an initiative aimed at reducing harm and cutting...
A Tale of Reinvention
Have you heard the news? Nurses want to spend more time with their patients. Let’s see… it’s 2014 and we are still challenged with an issue that has...
Who ‘Hawthorned’ the Data?
Remember learning about the Hawthorne Effect? It’s a phenomenon first described by Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger, published in the late 1930s,...
Better Medicine Through Improv
What is the number one factor that everyone talks about when it comes to improving patient outcomes? Hands down it’s good patient communication....
Quality in the Halls
Beyond the monthly or quarterly Quality Improvement meetings where we show up to either strut our collective performance achievements or gingerly...