Executing high-quality care transitions: A call to do it right

Quality improvement opportunities in health care.making it easy to do it right.

Do you know quality care when you see it?

The mission of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care, but have you ever considered how that mission comes to life in your daily practice? Just as it can be challenging to describe the essence of nursing practice beyond listing specific tasks we perform each day, it may be difficult to routinely identify high-quality care. Our tim...

How to do high-speed multicast right!

Multicast is an important technique for the distribution of data to groups of receivers. While in the past multicast traffic was restricted to slower transmission rates, newer networking equipment supports multicast in hardware and allows multicast traffic up to line rates of several hundreds of megabits and even gigabits. This evolution generates new opportunities for applications but also maj...

Consumers and quality-driven health care: a call to action.

A key strategy for driving improvements in health care quality is providing comparative quality information to consumers. This strategy will not work, and could even be counterproductive, unless (1) consumers are convinced that quality problems are real and consequential and that quality can be improved; (2) purchasers and policymakers make sure that quality reporting is standardized and univer...

Burnout Among Health Care Professionals A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care

Lotte N. Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, Mayo Clinic; Tait D. Shanafelt, MD, Mayo Clinic; Christine A. Sinsky, MD, American Medical Association; Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, American Nurses Association; Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, MPA, American Hospital Association; Alexander Ommaya, DSc, Association of American Medical Colleges; Colin P. West, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic; David Meyers, MD, Agency for Healthc...