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February 22, 2010
Hospital infections killed 48,000, report shows
Reuters recently reported that "pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in U.S. hospitals killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006."
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January 14, 2010
Evidence-based treatments have improved care quality, Joint Commission says
This week, Victoria Forlini wrote a piece for FierceHealthcare, explaining the way that the Joint Commission says that evidence-based practices improve patient care.
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January 4, 2010
NQF endorses 70 data-related measures
Modern Healthcare has reported that "The National Quality Forum is endorsing 70 performance measures that combine data from various electronic sources—such as administrative claims, pharmacy and laboratory systems, and registries—in order to advance the use of electronic data platforms to measure, report and improve quality."
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September 17, 2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $1.5 Million To Identify Ways to Keep Patients Safe and Improve Quality
INQRI announces the newly awarded fourth cohort of grantees.
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July 20, 2009
Modern Healthcare has posted a commentary by INQRI grantees Eileen Lake and Thelma Patrick on their research on neonatal intensive care units (NICU). They argue that by fully staffing a NICU with sufficiently-seasoned nurses and by developing an environment in which nurses work as a team with doctors, hospitals can reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in these tiny babies.
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July 6, 2009
Report Suggests New York Hospitals Have More to Do to Reduce HAIs
A report from the New York State Health Department finds that hospitals are making strides in reducing the risk of some hospital acquired infections (HAIs), but rates remain higher than the national average for some types of infections, the Jamestown Post-Journal reports.
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June 30, 2009
State Reports Reveal Wide Variation in Health Care Quality
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released its annual set of reports detailing state-by-state health care quality, finding that there are "mixed reviews" for the quality of care being provided, with no states performing exceptionally well or very poorly on all quality measures, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
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May 29, 2009
INQRI Grantee Featured in RWJF Newsletter
Congratulations to Gerri Lamb who was profiled in the May 2009 edition of "Sharing Nursing's Knowledge."
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May 15, 2009
Updates on Nurse Staffing and Workforce Regulations
Federal Legislation Would Establish Inpatient Nurse Staffing Ratios
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May 7, 2009
Updates from AHRQ
AHRQ Report Highlights Health Care Quality, Access Disparities Gap
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May 4, 2009
Medical Students, Health Care Professionals Tap IHI for Quality, Safety Courses
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has developed a series of free online courses designed to teach medical students, nurses and other health care professionals about quality improvement and patient safety, American Medical News reports.
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April, 2009
AHA Quality Center Distributes Guide to Bolster Quality Improvement
The American Hospital Association's (AHA) Quality Center has launched an initiative to help hospital leaders enhance "clinical, operational and financial performance" by meeting the Institute of Medicine's six aims for improvement, AHA News Now reports.
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February 10, 2009
"Can Nurses Care Too Much?"
Theresa Brown, a nurse and writer, pens a column for the New York Times' Well Blog about her experiences caring for patients as an oncology nurse. -
October, 2008
NOW on PBS - "Nurses Needed"
According to a government study, by the year 2020, there could be a nationwide shortage of up to one million nurses, which could result in substandard treatment for hundreds of thousands of patients. Just as alarming, fewer nurses are choosing to teach the next generation of professionals, resulting in tens of thousands of applicants being turned away from the nation's nursing schools.
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October 30, 2008
"Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the U.S."
The New England Journal of Medicine Volume 359:1921-1931
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., E. John Orav, Ph.D., Jie Zheng, Ph.D., and Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A.Hospitals with the highest nurse-staffing levels received the highest ratings from patients with respect to satisfaction with their care. Furthermore, hospitals that received the highest satisfaction ratings from patients provided a modestly higher quality of clinical care than those that received the lowest ratings.
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September 4, 2008
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $2.3 Million To Identify Ways To Keep Patients Safe, Improve Quality
Eight Interdisciplinary Research Teams To Expose Link Between Nurses and Advances in Patient Care
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July 11, 2008
The Alliance for Health Reform Briefing, "Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field."
On Friday, July 11, 2008, INQRI program director, Mary D. Naylor was invited to speak as part of the Alliance for Health Reform's briefing, "Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field" in Washington D.C.
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June 2008
"A Different Voice: Nurses on the Board," by Susan Meyers. Trustees Magazine, June 2008.
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May 26, 2008
"Quantifying nurses' impact," Letter to the Editor of Modern Healthcare, written by INQRI leaders Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly.
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May-June 2008
Public Perceptions of Nursing Careers: The Influence of the Media and Nursing Shortages
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March 27, 2008
Measuring the Work Nurses Do in Coordinating Care
Research presentations by two Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) grantees shines a spotlight on one of the most important nursing processes.
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March 27, 2008
Transforming Health Quality: A Chat with INQRI Program Officer Lori Melichar
The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) supports teams of nurse scholars and scholars from other disciplines to address gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality. Lori Melichar serves as INQRI's senior program officer. The Foundation will announce the third round of grantees in June 2008.
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March 20, 2008
Demands on Nurses Grow as Hospital Quality Improvement Activities Increase
Nurses pivotal to quality improvement efforts, but shortages could curtail involvement.
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January 4, 2008
"Data farming used to improve nursing capacity"
Diana Manos. Healthcare IT News, January 4, 2008.
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December, 2007
"Nursing Leadership: Championing Quality and Patient Safety in the Boardroom"
Margaret Fisk Mastal, Maulik Joshi, Kathryn Schulke, Nursing Economics, November-December 2007, Volume 25, Number 6.
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December 12, 2007
"Keeping Patients from Landing Back in Hospital"
Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal.
Article about INQRI Director Mary Naylor's research on transitional care, highlighting her partnerships with Aetna, Inc. and Kaiser Permanente (Northern California region), in ongoing efforts to translate the body of evidence generated from Dr. Naylor's clinical trials into practice. Features quote from INQRI National Advisory Committee member Randall Krakauer.
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December 10, 2007
"Nursing students turned away; Lack of faculty hinders growth in nursing field: Survey"
Melanie Evans, Modern Healthcare.
Features quotes from RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and Senior Program Officer Sue Hassmiller.
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October 22, 2007
"Nurses take up quality mantle; New initiatives move them into quality reporting"
Melanie Evans, Modern Healthcare.
Features quote from INQRI Project Director, Mary Naylor.
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September 24, 2007
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $3.6 Million to Identify Ways to Keep Patients Safe, Improve Quality
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July, 2007
National Quality Forum's issue brief, "Nursing Performance Measurement and Reporting: A Status Report."
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September 27, 2006
New Research Projects Will Examine How Nurses' Contributions Affect Patient Care And Safety
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November 15, 2005
RWJF Launches New Research Initiative to Explore Nursings's Impact on Patient Care and Safety