Timely depression screening increased about 20% among patients after a quality improvement initiative was implemented at their primary care practices, according to findings published in the ...

Key Takeaways Medicaid managed care plans conducted over 1200 Quality Improvement Projects in 2023–2024, focusing on behavioral health, chronic disease management, and maternal health.

The past 25 years have brought a revolution in the attention to quality in health care, dating from the 1999 Institute of Medicine Report, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” ...

Improvement projects cover a wide range of hospital processes and activities, from ensuring the safe use of medications to preventing infections, ensuring the hospital is well prepared for regulatory ...

Here are three ways hospital department managers can avoid push back or hesitance by employees during new quality improvement projects, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ...

The project — which ran from September 2021 to August 2022 — resulted in an increase in biomarker testing rates, from 68% at the start of the effort to 92% by its conclusion.

IHI brings awareness of safety and quality to millions, catalyzes learning and the systematic improvement of care, develops solutions to previously intractable challenges, and mobilizes health ...

ROCKVILLE, Md.—Ten medical schools have been selected to participate in a two-year quality improvement project to refine, implement and assess a competency-based obesity education curriculum ...