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Developing an ED Discharge Team to Incorporate the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit in a Rural Emergency Department
(2022-05-05)Background: The 72-hour return rate represents an important quality indicator and benchmark for Emergency Department (ED) care to determine if high quality and safe care is being delivered at a particular facility. The RED ... -
Assessing Social Determinants of Health to Improve the Quality of Life in the Adult Day Care Health Center Participants
(2022-05-05)The purpose of this quality improvement mixed methods design is to provide facilitators at an adult urban daycare health center with a toolkit to screen clients for SDOH and QOL among the adult clients ages 18 years and ... -
Quality Improvement in Primary Care using the STOPP/START Criteria
(2022-05-05)Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in older people is a public health issue and is increasingly a problem in the care of the geriatric population. Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) are recognized risk ... -
Developing a Multifaceted Fall Prevention Strategy in the Emergency Department
(2022-05-05)Abstract Despite systemwide efforts to reduce patient falls, this problem continues to be a significant patient safety concern in the emergency department. The ED is a high acuity, fast-paced, crowded and unpredictable ... -
Utilizing English and Spanish Multimodal Low Literacy Diabetes Self-Management Education to Improve Diabetes Knowledge: A Quality Improvement Project in a Low-Cost Clinic
(2022-12)Background: Health literacy is a vital competence when working toward successful management of Type II Diabetes (T2D). The ability to understand, assess, and apply health information in order to make judgements and ...