Importance Social needs interventions aim to improve health outcomes and mitigate
inequities by addressing health-related social needs, such as lack of transportation or food …

Background Despite decades of efforts to improve quality of health care, poor performance
persists in many aspects of care. Less than 1% of the enormous national investment in …

Whereas monitoring adherence to hand hygiene (HH) guidelines is standard practice in
most acute care facilities, practice improvement has been slow. In hospitals primarily …

OBJECTIVE: We characterized breastfeeding concerns from open-text maternal responses
and determined their association with stopping breastfeeding by 60 days (stopping …

As we move further into the twenty-first century, there is growing realization that the
relationship between humans and the wider environment is crucially important, and a …

To inform a city‐wide youth Violence Prevention Initiative, we explored youth narratives
about their exposure to violence to gain insight into their understanding of the causes and …

The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those that perform
exceptionally well. Positive deviance as an approach to quality improvement is gaining …

Abstract Background The Positive Deviance (PD) approach focuses on identifying and
learning from those who demonstrate exceptional performance despite facing similar …

Positive deviance inquiry is effective in identifying advantageous health behaviors and
improving health outcomes among disadvantaged resource-poor populations. The objective …

Supplement to “Spatial accessibility of pediatric primary healthcare: Measurement and
inference”. Supplementary Materials A, B, C and D contain four sections [Nobles, Serban …