A good quality-improvement process will measure current-state performance, determine the amount of improvement that can be realized through change, and quantify the return on the organization's ...

When healthcare leaders set goals for their organizations, such as preventing patient falls, or a medical system aims to lower opioid use after surgery, they use a process called quality improvement.

Structured quality improvement approaches—or improvement methods—provide processes and tools for measuring and managing your efforts in a way that helps sustain improvements in your local environment.

This paper provides analytical support for the continuous improvement argument while relying on a cost trade-off analysis. We present a dynamic model of a monopolist making decisions on price, ...

Bill Smith and Bob Galvin, both of Motorola, developed the Six Sigma quality improvement process in 1986. The idea of Six Sigma is to improve quality so that the number of defects becomes so few ...

The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...

Using Medicare claims and Hospital Compare data from 2007 through 2016 on performance on four measures of quality of care (a composite of clinical-process measures, a composite of patient ...

Saint Louis University's Quality and Performance Excellence graduate certificate is for students who wish to focus in areas of health operations management, including quality improvement, process ...

A multidisciplinary quality improvement program to prevent cardiac arrest in the pediatric ICU provided sustained improvement in participating centers out to 2 years, researchers reported.A long ...