Qsource’s Top 10 Patient-Focused Stories of 2015
There are many ways to keep in touch with the work Qsource is doing in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
There are many ways to keep in touch with the work Qsource is doing in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Qsource states are change agents focused on three healthcare quality improvement aims: better patient care, better population health and lower health care costs through improvement.
Hospitals working actively to lower infection rates downloaded a wealth of information from Qsource in 2015. These are the top five
Qsource works with healthcare patients and providers in five states to advance quality improvement goals established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These are the top 10 most downloaded resources on www.atomAlliance.org in 2015.
Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) investigates the ways that patients are harmed, why this harm occurs and how to prevent it. AHRQ translates the results of this research into practical tools, such as this series of videos, which can be used in the field to make healthcare safer.
In addition to videos
The SIR is a summary value used to track healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) at a national, state and local level. The SIR adjusts for several risk factors found to be significantly associated with differences in infection incidence.
Antibiotics have been a critical public health tool since the discovery of penicillin in 1928. Today, however, the emergence of drug resistance in bacteria is reversing the miracles of the past eighty years
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection (HAI) tracking system.