Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants. Objectives: ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

Acute stroke care quality improvement strategies aim to reduce treatment delays, enhance adherence to evidence-based protocols and optimise system-level coordination. Central to these efforts is the ...

Many hospitals and health systems are turning their attention to quality to improve patient care and avoid financial penalties for issues such as preventable readmissions and infections. While the ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

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 ...

In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), resources for cancer care are limited and access to quality cancer care can be difficult. Access to cancer care is also limited in rural areas of developed ...