Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read ...

The Optimizing Obstetric Care Quality Initiative was launched to address persistently elevated obstetric length of stay (LOS), which had drifted two standard deviations above peer benchmarks. Early ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

The old adage of learning from your mistakes isn’t just good advice for people; it applies to healthcare organizations as well. When hospitals make mistakes in the ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

The author shares observations on several common factors across various clinical settings that can determine success or failure in quality improvement. I have spent more than 15 years working with ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

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 ...

Patient safety events, especially preventable ones, are on the rise at healthcare organizations. Meanwhile, frontline staff are burned out, and the current fiscal environment is exerting pressure on ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...