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Qsource’s Top 10 Patient-Focused Stories of 2015

December 18th, 2015|

There are many ways to keep in touch with the work Qsource is doing in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Qsource Top 10 Provider Stories of 2015

December 17th, 2015|

In case you missed these stories, here are the top 10 provider-focused stories shared on Qsource in 2015.

Top 10 Provider Stories

Pledge to Get Your Flu Vaccine
Important Update to Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Have You Been Notified About a PQRS Negative Payment Adjustment?
Five Changes to the Five-Star Nursing Home Rating System
Qsource Partners with Cherokee Health Systems

Top Five Most Downloaded Healthcare Quality Improvement Resources of 2015

December 15th, 2015|

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.

Top 5 Most Downloaded Hospital Infection Prevention Resources in 2015

December 10th, 2015|

Hospitals working actively to lower infection rates downloaded a wealth of information from Qsource in 2015. These are the top five

Top 10 Most Downloaded Qsource Resources of 2015

December 7th, 2015|

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.

Get Smart About Antibiotics!

November 13th, 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.

AHRQ Patient Safety Videos Help Healthcare Teams Improve Safety

October 27th, 2015|

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

What Is the Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR)?

September 23rd, 2015|

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.

The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

September 16th, 2015|

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

Stay in the Know with NHSN

August 19th, 2015|

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.