“At the heart of improvement is small testing for change,” says Julie Kliger, MPA, BSN, RN, founder and principal of The Altos Group. Ms. Kliger has learned the value of conducting small tests of ...

Established in 2024, the Quality Improvement Pathway organizes current offerings in Quality Improvement (QI) across four years of medical school to channel the enthusiasm of students to become ...

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 ...

Improving care and lowering costs in the medical field are of the utmost importance. “Quality improvement initiatives are essential in every aspect of healthcare delivery because we will never be as ...

In the early 1990s, a number of hospitals created rapid-response teams or medical-emergency teams to identify and intervene early in the care of clinically critical patients. The promise of these ...

Humankind has been focused on quality and quality improvement for centuries, and much progress has been made in virtually every arena of society. With some exceptions, quality of life is better than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cardiac arrest prevention quality improvement program provided sustained benefits in participating hospitals.