A Look at Inappropriate Inpatient IV Opioid Use
With evidence indicating that overprescription of opioids has contributed to the current opioid...
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Hospital-Based Medicine
How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Opioid Crisis
When it comes to rates of infection and addiction, both the coronavirus pandemic and the opioid...
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Appreciative Inquiry – The Sugar that Makes the Process Improvement Pill Go Down
A foundational barrier to process improvement, whatever the approach, is that it generally offers...
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What We Heard When We Asked Patients About their Care Experience
Modern healthcare is drowning in data, and burdened by quality, safety, financial, and operational...
Read MoreSEP-1 Bundle Doesn’t Reduce Mortality in Treating Sepsis
Individual bundle components were associated with improved outcomes in community-onset sepsis Adherence to the SEP-1 sepsis bundle — a quality care metric for managing early sepsis — is not associated with improved...
Read MoreCovid-19: Physicians Groups Demand Data on Race, Ethnicity
Pandemic brings urgency to healthcare disparity That there is racial and ethnic disparity in care is not really news; however, these inequities are now blatantly evident during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seven physician...
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