A performance improvement initiative for physicians can significantly increase their use of evidence-based practices in screening for and treating depression, researchers report. Depression is a ...

Pay-for-performance and public reporting programs have successfully focused hospitals’ attention on quality. But they have also had unintended consequences, including encouraging a narrowing of focus ...

Accreditation organizations expect ASCs to perform quality assurance performance improvement projects using a 10-step documented process, according to Surgical Information Systems Clinical Solutions ...

The following is excerpted from Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management by Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, and Charles ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implementation of a multifaceted performance improvement program concentrating on education, accountability and ...

A performance improvement initiative for physicians can significantly increase their use of evidence-based practices in screening for and treating depression, in the July Journal of Psychiatric ...

To drive performance improvements within its trauma program and the state designation process, Tacoma, Wash.-based Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital enlisted the help of Philips healthcare ...

Supervisors and managers are expected to set clear standards of acceptable work performance and use timely verbal and, as necessary, written feedback as an initial way to correct unsatisfactory work ...