In 2009, the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) published a
paper identifying five areas of healthcare that require system-level attention and action to …

Background: The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators
(PSIs) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital-acquired Conditions …

Background: With payers and policymakers' focus on improving the value (health outcomes
achieved per health care dollar spent) of health care delivery, physicians are increasingly …

Healthcare worldwide is faced with a crisis of patient safety: Notwithstanding occasional
successes in relation to specific harms, safety as a system characteristic has remained …

Hospital executives pursue external recognition to improve market share and demonstrate
institutional commitment to quality of care. The Magnet Recognition Program of the …

Transparency is viewed as a self-evident good in Western society. Etzioni reexamines the
theoretical assumptions underlying the thesis that transparency plays a major role in holding …

Background: There are over 165,000 mHealth apps currently available to patients, but few
have undergone an external quality review. Furthermore, no standardized review method …

There is an ongoing debate among researchers and policy-makers on how to make
transparency a powerful tool of healthcare systems. This study addresses how the …

Hospital quality measures are crucial to a key idea behind health care payment
reforms:“paying for quality” instead of quantity. Nevertheless, such measures face major …

The public reporting of patient outcomes is crucial for quality improvement and informing
patient choice. However, outcome reporting in radiotherapy, despite being a major …