Quality Improvement

ASH has announced its three inaugural quality improvement champions.

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 quality improvement intervention successfully boosted education among patients with kidney disease but did not achieve higher home dialysis choice rates, according to study results.

Next-generation technologies and diagnostic tests offer the promise of improved cancer care, but they also present challenges related to ensuring widespread access to these innovations.

PHILADELPHIA — Mitigating disparities in health equity for eye care patients requires community outreach and improvements in health care infrastructure, as well as more understanding of the root causes, according to a speaker here.

Interventions that incorporate shared decision-making, reduce racial-ethnic bias and provide language-specific instruction can reduce disparities with continuous glucose monitoring use in type 1 diabetes, according to two presenters.

Cost savings and a smaller environmental footprint may be achieved by hospitals and health care systems that implement key OR quality improvement strategies, according to a review of quality improvement initiatives and interventions.

A Kaiser Permanente Southern California quality improvement program reduced but did not entirely eliminate racial disparities in BP control between Black and white patients, researchers reported.

Vitamin D levels in patients with a deficiency and cystic fibrosis increased with a single high dose, or stoss therapy, according to a poster presented at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference.

A hospital-wide quality improvement initiative including adoption of institutional guidelines, new prescribing prompts and a teaching curriculum was associated with a reduction in the use and duration of triple therapy after PCI, data show.