Hospitals have made slow progress in meeting the Institute of Medicine's patient safety goals, and implementation of safety systems has been inconsistent. The next logical question is this: What organizational characteristics predict greater implementation of patient safety systems, in terms of both extent of systems and progress over time? To answer this question, a survey was administered to ...

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OBJECTIVE To determine trends in crude and risk-adjusted mortality for major trauma patients injured in rural or metropolitan New South Wales, 2009-2014. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of NSW statewide trauma registry data. PARTICIPANTS Adult patients (aged 16 years or more) who presented with major trauma (Injury Severity Scores greater than 15) to a NSW hospital during 2009-2014. MAIN ...

The public policy of deinstitutionalization has predominated mental health planning and decision-making in recent decades. The government and consumer groups have joined together to find ways to decrease the state mental hospital inpatient population. There is a consistent belief in the need to reduce the utilization of inpatient care that has resulted in a decline from 413,066 state mental hos...

685. Factors Associated With Inter-Hospital Variability of Inpatient Antibiotic Use in a Cohort of US Hospitals James Baggs, PhD; Scott Fridkin, MD, FIDSA; Lori Pollack, MD, MPH; Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA; John Jernigan, MD, MS; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), Centers for D...