Big Data and Predictive Analytics
Emerging changes in the United States’ healthcare delivery model have led to renewed interest in data-driven methods for managing quality of care. Analytics (Data plus Information) plays a key role…
PEDIATRICS
Pediatric Quality Improvement
This article describes important aspects of health-care quality, quality improvement (QI), patient safety (PS), and approaches to research on QI/PS efforts. Common terminology to facilitate an understanding of QI and…
Pediatric Quality and Safety
Patient safety and quality are 2 of many competing priorities facing health care providers. As safety and quality rise on the agenda of executives, payers, and consumers, competing priorities, such…
Clinical Pathways
Health care in the United States is plagued by errors, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies. It is also extremely costly. Clinical pathways can drive high-value care and high reliability within a health…
ABCs of Safety and Quality for the Pediatric Resident and Fellow
The role of resident and fellow trainees in patient-centered improvement processes is critical to a health care system’s success. There is a growing impetus to incorporate patient safety and quality…
Advanced Technology in Pediatric Intensive Care Units
In medicine, providers strive to produce quality outcomes and work to continually improve those outcomes. Whether it is reducing cost, decreasing length of stay, mitigating nosocomial infections, or improving survival,…
Patient Safety and Quality Metrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Quality-based regulations, performance-based payouts, and open reporting have contributed to a growing focus on quality and safety metrics in health care. Medical errors are a well-known catastrophe in the field….
Quality Care and Patient Safety in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Over the past 15 years, with alarming and illustrative reports released from the Institute of Medicine, quality improvement and patient safety have come to the forefront of medical care. This article…
Electronic Health Record–Enabled Research in Children Using the Electronic Health Record for Clinical Discovery
Initially described more than 50 years ago, electronic health records (EHRs) are now becoming ubiquitous throughout pediatric health care settings. The confluence of increased EHR implementation and the exponential growth…
Measurement, Standards, and Peer Benchmarking: One Hospital’s Journey
Peer-to-peer benchmarking is an important component of rapid-cycle performance improvement in patient safety and quality-improvement efforts. Institutions should carefully examine critical success factors before engagement in peer-to-peer benchmarking in order…
