Increasingly, institutions, third party payers, and the general public are requesting or requiring assessment of the quality of medical procedures and treatment. Payers want to ascertain what they are ...

To report risk factors for visual acuity (VA) improvement and harm following cataract surgery using electronically collected multi-centre data conforming to the Cataract National Dataset (CND). In all ...

Safety performance is an outcome of culture—the conditions leaders create through organization, leadership, measurement, and learning. Regular culture assessments, strategic alignment, and data-driven ...

Background Identification of delirium in emergency departments (ED) is often underestimated; within EDs, studies on delirium assessment and relation with patient outcome in Intermediate Care Units ...

If you’ve ever driven a car then you already know what an indicator is. The speedometer indicates how fast you’re going. The odometer indicates how far you’ve gone. The gas gauge indicates how much ...

In the past, the most common way to measure the safety performance of a business was to look at “lagging” indicators. The number of incidents and injuries would be metrics tasked with painting a ...

Kayvan Kian is the author of What Is Water? and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, where he founded the Young Leaders Forum. When you ask someone how their business is doing, certain people might ...