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Success Stories by Topic: Health care quality
- Arkansas Regional Quality Improvement Initiative
July 2007
The Arkansas RQI initiative is targeting quality improvement breakthroughs in four clinical areas: comprehensive diabetes care, cervical cancer screening, well-child visits, and preventive services for adults.
- Rhode Island Regional Quality Improvement Initiative
July 2007
The Rhode Island RQI initiative is aligning performance standards and financial incentives among the state’s health plans, purchasers, and providers. Using morbidity, cost, and prevalence data, stakeholders selected four chronic conditions for quality improvement: pediatric asthma, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and depression.
- Rochester New York Regional Quality Improvement Initiative
July 2007
The Rochester, New York (Monroe County) RQI initiative is working across payers to improve the quality of care provided to individuals with diabetes at the practice-site level.
- Wayne Memorial Hospital Consortium Patient Safety Project
January 2007
This project is built on the premise that a significant aspect of patient safety that can be improved is in the realm of medication, including prescription, transcription, validation, documentation, ordering, dispensing, administering, and usage of drugs and other pharmaceuticals.
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