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Journal Features National Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Honorees

The July 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety details the achievements of this year’s John M. Eisenberg Award recipients, including a physician who is passionate about improving communication and transparency between patients and their health care providers, a network of children’s hospitals that saved more than 9,000 children from harm, and a large health system that achieved a decrease in hospital-acquired patient harms of more than 60 percent. ... Read More

Joint Commission Resources Publishes New Book on Patient Flow

Joint Commission Resources, Inc. has published Optimizing Patient Flow: Advanced Strategies for Managing Variability to Enhance Access, Quality and Safety, edited by Eugene Litvak, PhD, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization.... Read More

Reducing Health Care Provider Stress and Burnout to Improve Satisfaction and Patient Care

Reducing health care provider stress and burnout to improve satisfaction and patient care is the focus of two new articles in the May 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.​... Read More

Early Treatment Program for Opioid-Dependent Newborns Significantly Reduces Cost While Maintaining Medical and Safety Outcomes

Fetal opioid exposure can result in neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). A study to be published in the June 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety describes an early treatment program for opioid-dependent newborns.... Read More

New Study Analyzes Effect of Adjusting for Socioeconomic Status in CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

A new study in the April 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety analyzes the effect of hospital peer groups in adjusting for socioeconomic status (SES) or “social risk” in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP).​... Read More

New Study Uses Electronic Health Record Data to Identify Hypertension in Patients from Underserved Communities

A new study in the March 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety calls attention to how 10 U.S. health centers used electronic health record data to identify hypertension in patients from underserved communities.... Read More

Introducing the JCR Tracers Mobile App

We are pleased to announce the release of the JCR Tracers mobile app. Tracers with AMP subscribers can download this complimentary, user-friendly app for an easier and more efficient way to collect tracer observation data. ... Read More

Call for Papers on Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship in Health Care from The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

As antimicrobial resistance continues to increase and constitute a major threat to public health in the United States and around the world, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is calling for papers on improving antimicrobial stewardship programs in health care settings.... Read More

New Study Identifies Successful Approaches to Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in U.S. Hospitals

A new study in the February 2018 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety identifies common characteristics and innovative strategies among antimicrobial stewardship programs leading the way.... Read More