Quality improvement

Reduction Mammoplasty: A Comparison Between Operations Performed by Plastic Surgery and General Surgery

03/27/2021

Publisher:Open Science Company, LLC
Anthony M. Kordahi, BA, Ian C. Hoppe, MD, and Edward S. Lee, MD

Publisher:Open Science Company, LLCAn...

Reduction Mammoplasty: A Comparison Between Operations Performed by Plastic Surgery and General Surgery Anthony M. Kordahi, BA,a Ian C. Hoppe, MD,b and Edward S. Lee, MDb aRutgers–New Jersey Medical School, Newark; and...

Reduction Mammoplasty: A...

03/27/2021

ePlasty

Videos

Higher Hospital Competition Associated With Improved Quality of Prostate Cancer Care

03/18/2021

Journal of Clinical Pathways

Video

Study First: Driving the Case for Improving Hospital Wound Care

01/13/2021

Leigh Tyson, BSN, RN, CWOCN

Rose Medical Center, Denver, CO

Leigh Tyson, BSN, RN, CWOCN Rose Me...

The results of a quality improvement project evaluating the performance of a formulary dressing and a soft silicone bordered foam dressing with Flex technology (intervention dressing) are presented. Data from this video were presented in...

The results of a quality...

01/13/2021

Wound Management & Prevention

News

Home Time After Hospitalization for Heart Failure a Viable Hospital Performance Metric

12/03/2020

Journal of Clinical Pathways

From the Field

Care Coordination Between Prescribers and the Specialty Pharmacy for Multiple Myeloma: Qualitative Insights Into Designing a Quality Improvement Program for Multisite Community Oncology Practices

08/19/2020

Stacey W McCullough, PharmD

David Blaisdell, BA

Jonathan K Kish, PhD, MPH

JaLyna Laney, RN

Tom Valuck, MD, JD

Natalie Dickson, MD

Jesus G Berdeja, MD

Jeffrey F Patton, MD

Ronda Copher, PhD

Annette Powers, PharmD, MBA

Abstract: It is widely recognized that the quality of medical care received in the United States is suboptimal, and poor-quality care may contribute to disparities in cancer incidence and mortality. While...

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08/19/2020

Journal of Clinical Pathways

News

Highlighting Research on Health Services Utilization, Quality Improvement Efforts

05/31/2020

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (May 29-31, 2020), Stewart B Fleishman, MD, Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine (Indio, CA), highlighted three abstracts presented at the meeting...

At the...

05/31/2020

Journal of Clinical Pathways

Your Path to Success: Expert Advice

Secrets of a High-Performing Vascular Interventional Program: Leadership and Culture

07/30/2019

Cath Lab Digest talks with Marcelo Guimaraes, MD, FSIR, Director, Division Vascular Interventional Radiology, Professor of Radiology and Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.

Cath Lab Digest talks with Marcelo Gu...

Ultimately, we were able to increase our capacity and do more cases per day. We also completed a project to decrease the room turnover time.

Ultimately, we were able to...

07/30/2019

Cath Lab Digest

Cath Lab Management

Quality and Safety: The Marshall Method

04/30/2019

Marshall W. Ritchey, MS, MBA, RCIS, CPFT, CET

Marshall W. Ritchey, MS, MBA, RCIS, C...

Happy staff stay. Stressed, scared, or sad staff depart your cardiac cath lab in search of a better life.

Happy staff stay. Stressed,...

04/30/2019

Cath Lab Digest

The Radial Lounge, Revisited

02/28/2018

Nauman Siddiqi, MD, Antony Kaliyadan, MD, John Wang, MD,

Interventional Cardiology, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute,

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Nauman Siddiqi, MD, Antony Kaliyadan,...

We hope that by outlining our roadmap to achieving a successful radial lounge with a robust transradial catheterization program that other cath labs can learn from both our success and avoid potential pitfalls along the way.

We hope that by outlining our...

02/28/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Cath Lab Management

Optimizing Your Cath Lab Activity Levels: Seven Deadly Sins in Cath Lab Operations Management

08/01/2017

Maartje E. Zonderland, PhD – Managing Consultant,
Integrated Health Solutions, Medtronic, Heerlen, Netherlands

Maartje E. Zonderland, PhD – Managing...

This article describes seven deadly sins related to cath lab operations management. Many cath labs globally suffer from most of these sins. For a medium-sized cath lab with four procedure rooms, the yearly potential loss is equivalent to...

This article describes seven...

08/01/2017

Cath Lab Digest