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A quality improvement plan to decrease acute care transfers through better staff communication about status changes among assisted living residents
(2017-01-12)
Elderly residents of assisted living facilities (ALFs) are generally frail and may have multiple comorbidities (National Center for Assisted Living, 2010). Inadequate communication of changes in resident status precludes ...
Quality improvement program: Implementation of chronic care management services in an affordable care organization
(2017-06-23)
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States each year. According to the Group Health Research Institute (2015), almost one-half of all Americans have one or more chronic health ...
Alarm management: A quality improvement project to decreased non-actionable cardiac telemetry alarms
(2016-11-21)
A high number of non-actionable cardiac alarms compromise patient safety. Up to 99% of telemetry alarms are false or non-actionable, leaving nurses to guess which 1% of alarms are real. This alarm fatigue phenomenon leaves ...
Initiation of a HIV screening protocol and pathway in the emergency department: A quality improvement initiative
(11/9/2017)
There is currently a nationwide campaign to address human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment. The emergency department (ED) is a significant venue in the HIV prevention and treatment campaign. The quality ...