Care interventions and quality of care in rural and urban nursing units ... This study addresses the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research ...

Electronic health record use, work environments, and patient outcomes ... The tremendous promise of electronic health records (EHR) to improve the quality and ...

Health Care Policy and Practice: Promoting Environments for Quality Care ... The Institute of Medicine report "Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work ...

Assessing the relationship between information technology sophistication and nursing home quality ... The K08 application outlines a five-year plan to support ...

Exploratory study using queuing theory to improve nurse staffing effectiveness ... Evidence indicates a significant positive relationship between nurse staffing ...

A partnership for clinician EHR use and quality of care ... The Institute for Nursing Centers and the Alliance of Chicago propose to study the effectiveness ...

Improving medication management practices and care transitions through technology ... Home health organizations provide post-acute care to a predominantly ...

Impact of patient safety initiatives on nursing workflow and productivity ... Since 2000, the public's attention has been captured by the reports of poor quality, ...

Ambulatory Care Registered Nurse Performance Measurement Conference ... The purpose of this conference proposal is related to all four of the AHRQ's core research ...

Quality of public health nursing care: prioritizing the research agenda ... The specific conference objectives are to (1) examine the quality and safety parameters ...

Off-shift nursing and quality patient outcomes ... Nurse staffing levels in acute care hospitals are associated with patient safety outcomes. Focusing solely ...

The magnet journey: understanding the role of unit culture in evidence-based practice adoption ... The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand how ...

CAPTURE Falls: collaboration and proactive teamwork used to reduce falls ... Inpatient falls remain a common, costly, and serious adverse event in hospitals. ...

Impact of health information technology on delivery and quality of patient care ... Adverse events in hospitalized patients are catastrophic and costly to ...

Bridging care support and care delivery with engineered logistics and technology ... Geisinger Clinic's Supply Chain Services has developed "Project HELP" (Healthcare ...

Using an electronic health record to examine nurse continuity and pressure ulcers ... My long-term goal is to ensure hospital administrators have readily accessible, ...

Exploring the interactions between nurses and industry in clinical practice ... Conflicts of interest arising from relationships between health professionals ...

The impact of public hospitals' privatization on nurse staffing ... As the "providers of last resort," public hospitals operate under more challenging environments ...

Improving diabetes and depression self-management via adaptive mobile messaging ... Diabetes and depression are major public health problems that disproportionately ...