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Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance

Team-based collaboration of safety and financial leaders is necessary to successfully create and present business cases to advance safety initiatives. This toolkit includes specific recommendations and practices for a Safety–Finance Team and provides a framework for understanding, framing, and advancing patient and workforce safety.
Health Care Providers Must Act Now to Address the Prescription Opioid Crisis

While a community-wide approach is also needed to effectively address the opioid crisis, the authors describe some key actions that both providers and organizations can take to begin making a difference, including changing provider prescribing practices.
Does a Quality Improvement Campaign Accelerate Take-up of New Evidence? IHI’s Project JOINTS

IHI’s Project JOINTS initiative engaged a network of state-based organizations and professionals in a six-month QI campaign to promote adherence to three evidence-based practices to reduce surgical site infection (SSI) after joint replacement.
WIHI: Practicing Respect and Preventing Harm

February 9, 2017 | Most of us know what it feels like to have an interaction with someone that can feel rushed, incomplete, maybe even abrupt or downright rude. What are the consequences of these encounters?
Development of a Trigger Tool to Identify Adverse Events and Harm in Emergency Medical Services

This article describes the development and implementation of the Emergency Medical Services Trigger Tool (EMSTT), a sampling strategy similar to the Global Trigger Tool with EMS-specific triggers, to identify and measure adverse events and harm over time in the Emergency Medical Services setting.

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