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A Blueprint for Better Care: The Constant Drive for Quality Improvement in Primary Care
A Blueprint for Better Care: The Constant Drive for Quality Improvement in Primary Care 1024 683 Alaina London
A smiling girl sits on a table at a doctor's office. A smiling female doctor is checking the girl's ear.

A culture of quality improvement at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has become the model of care for children across the country. Every day, thousands of children walk through the doors of Nationwide Children’s Primary Care Centers for well visits, follow-up care, acute illness and so much more. Across 14 primary care sites where more than 150,000…

Better Asthma Outcomes: A Systems-Level Approach
Better Asthma Outcomes: A Systems-Level Approach 1024 422 Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES
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A dedicated team of experts embraced sweeping tactics to reduce asthma-related emergency department visits by 33% and inpatient length of stay by 0.9 days. This is how they did it. It started with a conversation about the data: Why are kids with asthma the hospital’s most frequent fliers? After all, excellent preventive and acute treatments…