Introduction: Healthcare systems increasingly move toward “value-based
healthcare”(VBHC), aiming to further improve quality and performance of care as well as the …

Recent high‐profile mass casualty events illustrate the unique challenges that such
occurrences pose to normal hospital operations. These events create patient surges that …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

Importance Low-value health care remains prevalent in the US despite decades of work to
measure and reduce such care. Efforts have been only modestly effective in part because …

Low-value care, or patient care that provides no net benefit in specific clinical scenarios,
remains one of the most pressing problems in healthcare across the world—namely …

Background: Around the world, policies and interventions are used to encourage clinicians
to reduce low-value care. In order to facilitate this, we need a better understanding of the …

Current models of quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) education are not fully
integrated with clinical care delivery, representing a major impediment toward achieving …

Background Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is common. Overtreatment of ASB
leads to harm, including adverse effects from antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, and increased …

Background Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a hospital-acquired infection. Overtesting
for C. difficile leads to false positive results due to a high rate of asymptomatic colonization …

Results For free T3, the best practice advisory acceptance rate was 23.0%(982 of 4269). The
24-hour reorder rate was 24.7%(243 of 982), making the true action rate 17.3%(739 of …