National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)

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JHQ CE 211: Improving Prophylactic Perioperative Antibiotic Utilization in a Hospital System: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Surgical Infection Prevention Project in 2002. The groups developed ...; November/December 2008
JHQ CE 210: Creating a Safety Culture Through the Application of Reliability Science: The discussion of patient safety in delivering healthcare services is an important topic given the current state of the healthcare system. The current organizational cultures of ...; November/December 2008
JHQ CE 209: Quartile Dashboards: Translating Large Data Sets into Performance Improvement Priorities: Quality professionals are the first to understand challenges of transforming data into meaningful information for frontline staff, operational managers, and governing bodies. To ...; November/December 2008
JHQ CE 208 Closing the Gap in Children’s Quality Measures: A Collaborative Model: The need for measures of the quality of healthcare provided to children and adolescents is well documented. However, children have been underrepresented in national healthcare ...; September/October 2008
JHQ CE 207 Collaborative Method: Effective Performance Improvement Tool for Reducing Inappropriate Admissions: TMF Health Quality Institute (TMF) is the Medicare quality improvement organization for Texas. Under its contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of ...; July/August 2008