Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read ...

In the early 1990s, a number of hospitals created rapid-response teams or medical-emergency teams to identify and intervene early in the care of clinically critical patients. The promise of these ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

The author shares observations on several common factors across various clinical settings that can determine success or failure in quality improvement. I have spent more than 15 years working with ...

The old adage of learning from your mistakes isn’t just good advice for people; it applies to healthcare organizations as well. When hospitals make mistakes in the ...

With the aim of improving the quality of cancer care globally, ASCO began to offer its quality improvement programs to interested international oncology practices. In this manuscript, we describe the ...

Patient safety events, especially preventable ones, are on the rise at healthcare organizations. Meanwhile, frontline staff are burned out, and the current fiscal environment is exerting pressure on ...