New financial penalties for institutions with high readmission rates have intensified efforts to
reduce rehospitalization. Several interventions that involve multiple components (eg, patient …

Background: About 1 in 5 Medicare fee-for-service patients discharged from the hospital is
rehospitalized within 30 days. Beginning in 2013, hospitals with high risk-standardized …

Importance Family and unpaid caregivers commonly help older adults who are at high risk
for poorly coordinated care. Objective To examine how caregivers' involvement in older …

Research has demonstrated that 72% to 99% of clinical alarms are false. The high number
of false alarms has led to alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue is sensory overload when clinicians …

Background: Incentives offered by the US government have spurred marked increases in
use of health information technology (IT). Purpose: To update previous reviews and examine …

Background Formal evaluations of programmes are an important source of learning about
the challenges faced in improving quality in healthcare and how they can be addressed. The …

Background Surgical mortality data are collected routinely in high-income countries, yet
virtually no low-or middle-income countries have outcome surveillance in place. The aim …

Background Despite over a decade of efforts to reduce the adverse event rate in healthcare,
the rate has remained relatively unchanged. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a process used …

Abstract Background The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act subsidizes implementation by hospitals of electronic health records with …

Background Nursing is an integral part of all healthcare services, and has the potential of
having a wide and enduring impact on health outcomes for a global ageing population. Over …