This Macy Conference that was held April 3 to 6, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia represented the Macy Foundation’s first formal initiative to bring together the worlds of health professions education, healthcare delivery, and patient and community advocacy. The conference was chaired by Terry Fulmer,...
This plan was developed at the first Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Research for Transforming Health Care conference, held August 2013 at the University of Minnesota. More information about that event is available here.
To begin creating a national nursing knowledge model, 2013 conference...
BACKGROUND: Although care pathways are often said to promote teamwork, high-level evidence that supports this statement is lacking. Furthermore, knowledge on conditions and facilitators for successful pathway implementation is scarce. The objective of the European Quality of Care Pathway (EQCP)...
BACKGROUND: A modified nontechnical skills (NOTECHS) scale for trauma (T-NOTECHS) was developed to teach and assess teamwork skills of multidisciplinary trauma resuscitation teams. In this study, T-NOTECHS was evaluated for reliability and correlation with clinical performance.
METHODS: Interrater...
The Pursuing Perfection initiative was an eight-year demonstration program (2001 through 2008) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in the US. Supported by technical assistance from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the initiative’s goal was to learn if and how health...