The Surgical Care Improvement Project Redux: Should CMS Revive Process of Care Measures for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections? | | 2022 |
Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation: When Surrogates Refuse Basic Care | Philosophy and Medicine | 2022 |
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospital Onset Bloodstream Infections (HOBSI) at a Large Health System. | American Journal of Infection Control | 2021 |
Hospital Performance for Gastrointestinal Bleeding Mortality, Length of Stay, and Complication Rates in the USA. | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | 2022 |
The Interface Between Quality Improvement and Law | | 2021 |
Two Sides to Every Fall: Patient and Nurse Perspectives | Critical Care Nurse | 2020 |
It Takes Teamwork: Consideration of Difficult Hospital-Acquired Conditions | | 2021 |
Using Key Performance Indicators to Reduce Perceived Perioperative Complexity and Improve Patient Workflow | | 2020 |
Harm and Quality in the ICU | | 2019 |
Aligning the Perioperative Process to Hospital Strategy | Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration Book Series | 2018 |
Why should hospitals fund delirium research? | Journal of Gerontological Nursing | 2015 |
What Can We Learn about Fall Risk Factors from EHR Nursing Notes? A Text Mining Study | EGEMS (Washington, DC) | 2018 |
Nursing Care Guidelines for Reducing Hospital-Acquired Nasogastric Tube-Related Pressure Injuries | Critical Care Nurse | 2019 |
Mastery Learning of Bedside Procedural Skills | Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation | 2020 |
Quality of Care | | 2014 |
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): The urgent need to refocus on hardwiring prevention efforts | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2021 |
Paving the PICC journey: building structures, process and engagement to improve outcomes | BMJ Quality and Safety | 2021 |
Institutional quality and patient safety programs: An overview for the healthcare epidemiologist | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2021 |
The development and implementation of a postfall template to improve the content of provider documentation related to falls in the hospital setting | Journal of Healthcare Risk Management: the Journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management | 2020 |
Call to Action to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Patients: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation | 2020 |
Patient safety and quality outcomes for ED patients admitted to alternative care area inpatient beds | American Journal of Emergency Medicine | 2020 |
Impact of level of nurse experience on falls in medical surgical units | Journal of Nursing Management | 2019 |
Patient and system factors associated with unassisted and injurious falls in hospitals: an observational study | BMC Geriatrics | 2019 |
The case for a population standardized infection ratio (SIR): A metric that marries the device SIR to the standardized utilization ratio (SUR) | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2019 |
Inclusion of a care bundle for fever, hyperglycaemia and swallow management in a National Audit for acute stroke: evidence of upscale and spread | Implementation Science | 2019 |
Evaluating the use of multiteam systems to manage the complexity of inpatient falls in rural hospitals | Health Services Research | 2019 |
The impact of post-fall huddles on repeat fall rates and perceptions of safety culture: a quasi-experimental evaluation of a patient safety demonstration project | BMC Health Services Research | 2019 |
Reducing Hypoglycemia in Critical Care Patients Using a Nurse-Driven Root Cause Analysis Process | Critical Care Nurse | 2019 |
Analysis of National Trends in Hospital Acquired Conditions Following Major Urologic Surgery Before and After Implementation of the Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program | Urology | 2018 |
We Will Not Compete on Safety: How Children's Hospitals Have Come Together to Hasten Harm Reduction | Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | 2018 |
Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2018 |
The Surgical Care Improvement Project Redux: Should CMS Revive Process of Care Measures for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections? | | 2018 |
Financial Incentives to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections Under Alternative Payment Arrangements | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2018 |
Device Utilization Ratios in Infection Prevention: Process or Outcome Measure? | Current Infectious Disease Reports | 2018 |
Technical rationality and the decentring of patients and care delivery: A critique of 'unavoidable' in the context of patient harm | Nursing Inquiry | 2018 |
Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections: Opportunities and Challenges to Safely Reduce Test Use | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2018 |
Evaluation of the Present-on-Admission Indicator among Hospitalized Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with a Pressure Ulcer Diagnosis: Coding Patterns and Impact on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Rates | Health Services Research | 2018 |
Large-Scale Hospital Mattress Switch-Out Leads to Reduction Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers: Operationalization of a Multidisciplinary Task Force | Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing | 2018 |
Using Key Performance Indicators to Reduce Perceived Perioperative Complexity and Improve Patient Workflow | International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics | 2017 |
Impact of State Reporting Laws on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in U.S. Adult Intensive Care Units | Health Services Research | 2017 |
Developing risk management dashboards using risk and quality measures: A visual best practices approach | Journal of Healthcare Risk Management: the Journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management | 2017 |
Back to Basics: Preventing Perioperative Pressure Injuries | AORN Journal | 2017 |
Medicare reimbursement and orthopedic surgery: past, present, and future | Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine | 2017 |
The Use of Radiofrequency Detection to Mitigate the Risk of Retained Surgical Sponges | Advances in Surgery | 2017 |
Avoiding Preventable Complications in Hospitalized Patients with CKD | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2017 |
Factors and Costs Associated With Delay in Treatment Initiation and Prolonged Length of Stay With Inpatient EPOCH Chemotherapy in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies | Cancer Investigation | 2017 |
Establishing standard hospital performance measures for cervical spinal trauma: a Nationwide In-patient Sample study | Spinal Cord | 2016 |
Legal and Policy Interventions to Improve Patient Safety | Circulation | 2016 |
The Genesis, Maturation, and Future of Critical Care Cardiology | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2016 |
Big Data and Perioperative Nursing | AORN Journal | 2016 |
Glycemic Control and Urinary Tract Infections in Women with Type 1 Diabetes: Results from the DCCT/EDIC | Journal of Urology | 2016 |
Beyond Infection: Device Utilization Ratio as a Performance Measure for Urinary Catheter Harm | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2016 |
A Multicenter Longitudinal Study of Hospital-Onset Bacteremia: Time for a New Quality Outcome Measure? | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2016 |
Predictors, Morbidity, and Costs Associated with Pneumothorax during Electronic Cardiac Device Implantation | PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology | 2016 |
The Effect of Body Mass Index on Perioperative Outcomes After Major Surgery: Results from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) 2005-2011 | World Journal of Surgery | 2015 |
Provider perspectives on the use of indwelling urinary catheters in older adults in emergency department settings: developing a novel clinical protocol | American Journal of Infection Control | 2015 |
New strategies to assert the value of the perioperative nurse | AORN Journal | 2015 |
Adverse events in neurosurgery and their relationship to quality improvement | Neurosurgery Clinics of North America | 2015 |
Prevalence, impact, and risk factors for hospital-acquired conditions after major surgical resection for cancer: a NSQIP analysis | Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | 2015 |
Perioperative management of obese patients | Surgical Clinics of North America | 2015 |
Impact of postoperative pneumonia following pituitary surgery | Laryngoscope | 2015 |
Under Pressure: Financial Effect of the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Initiative-A Statewide Analysis of Pressure Ulcer Development and Payment | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2015 |
Measuring What Really Matters in Patient Safety | Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics | 2015 |
"Never events" and the quest to reduce preventable harm | Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | 2015 |
Experience with Designing and Implementing a Bundled Payment Program for Total Hip Replacement | Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | 2015 |
Severity of disease estimation and risk-adjustment for comparison of outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients using electronic routine care data | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2015 |
Hospital-based Quality Improvement Initiatives | Hospital Medicine Clinics | 2014 |
Hospital-acquired conditions after bariatric surgery: we can predict, but can we prevent? | Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques | 2014 |
Concurrent and lagged effects of registered nurse turnover and staffing on unit-acquired pressure ulcers | Health Services Research | 2014 |
Interruptions in enteral nutrition delivery in critically ill patients and recommendations for clinical practice | Critical Care Nurse | 2014 |
The Dementia Friendly Hospital Initiative education program for acute care nurses and staff | Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing | 2014 |
Memorial Hermann: high reliability from board to bedside | Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | 2013 |
A retrospective review of leg wound complications after coronary artery bypass surgery | AORN Journal | 2013 |
A systematic approach for the location of hand sanitizer dispensers in hospitals | Health Care Management Science | 2014 |
The Braden Q+P: a pediatric perioperative pressure ulcer risk assessment and intervention tool | AORN Journal | 2012 |