Background The American Pain Society (APS) set out to revise and expand its 1995 Quality
Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain and to facilitate …

Thinking of quality improvement (QI) as a principle-based approach to change provides
greater clarity about (a) the contribution QI offers to staff and patients,(b) how to differentiate …

Quality improvement involves a combined effort among health care staff and stakeholders to
diagnose and treat problems in the health care system. However, health care professionals …

Given the increasing importance of performance indicators in current UK health policy, this
paper provides a systematic review of empirical and theoretical writings concerning their use …

Do you feel you are drowning in a sea of data and wondering how you can learn from all of
this information? While measuring quality efforts in healthcare is essential to the overall …

Managing and measuring performance become exceedingly complex as healthcare
institutions evolve into integrated health systems comprised of hospitals, outpatient clinics …

Health care systems need to be resilient to deal with disasters like the global spread of the
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on top of serving the …

Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) describes a coherent set of actions that
ensure optimal use of antimicrobials to improve patient outcomes, while limiting the risk of …

Care bundles: the holy grail of infectious risk management i... : Current Opinion in Infectious
Diseases Care bundles: the holy grail of infectious risk management in hospital? : Current …

Increasing consumerism poses many challenges for health care providers, particularly for
those in primary care. Quality improvement to meet patients' heightened demand for service …