Background Hospital mortality is increasingly being regarded as a key indicator of patient
safety, yet methodologies for assessing mortality are frequently contested and seldom point …

Morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) have three potential aims—to improve patient
safety by reducing adverse events and preventable deaths, to improve overall quality of care …

Introduction National Health Service hospitals and government agencies are increasingly
using mortality rates to monitor the quality of inpatient care. Mortality and Morbidity (M&M) …

Article-at-a-Glance Background In 2008, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
implemented an initiative to improve sepsis care. Early detection and expedited …

Background Intensive care is advanced and highly technical, and it is essential that, despite
this, patient care remains safe and of high quality. Adverse events (AEs) are supposed to be …

Background Hospital patient safety is a major social problem. In the UK, policy responses
focus on the introduction of improvement programmes that seek to implement evidence …

Rationale, aims and objectives A major problem in hospitals is that of falls, which can
seriously reduce patients' quality of life. Fall rates vary considerably depending on health …

OBJECTIVES: Develop and deploy a disease cohort-based machine learning algorithm for
timely identification of hospitalized pediatric patients at risk for clinical deterioration that …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Chart reviews are frequently used for research, care
assessments, and quality improvement activities despite an absence of data on reliability …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Despite the importance of reducing inpatient mortality, little
has been reported about establishing a hospitalwide, systematic process to review and …