American Journal of Medical Quality is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Health Care. The journal's editor is David B Nash, MD, MBA. It has been in publication since 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with American College of Medical Quality. American Journal of Medical Quality is aimed at those practicing, conducting research, and teaching in the field of clinical quality improvement. The journal publishes research studies, evaluations of the delivery and management of health care, and reports on changes in the field of medical quality. American Journal of Medical Quality is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 1.707, ranking it 34 out of 71 journals in the category 'Health Care Sciences & Services'.
In cancer patients with neutropenic fever, delaying antibiotic treatment past 60 minutes from the time of fever detection does not reduce the short-term chance of survival, according to a study in the American Journal of ...
Dec 29, 2022
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Even when patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are successfully incorporated into electronic health records (EHRs), these patient-centered data are infrequently accessed by members of clinical care teams, suggests a ...
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Initial standards for accreditation of graduate programs in the burgeoning professional discipline of healthcare quality and safety (HQS) are presented in the November/December issue of the American Journal of Medical Quality, official ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Rush University Medical Center researchers have proposed a rating system that standardizes and combines data from five leading hospital rating systems into an easy-to-understand composite score of one to 10 that will help ...
Jul 12, 2019
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Allowing for more quality measures in the federal government's Quality Star Rating program would create a fairer and more equitable model for assessing the level of quality at U.S. acute-care hospitals, according to a Henry ...
Apr 3, 2019
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A University of Virginia Health System program that provides follow-up care for heart failure patients after they leave the hospital significantly improves survival and other outcomes while saving money, a new study finds.
Jul 31, 2018
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A hospital-wide communication training program, outlining best practices for doctors to follow in interactions with patients, improved patients' perception of doctor communication by 9 percent, according to new research. ...
Feb 23, 2017
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Though healthcare is not without risks or error, hospital employees can support a culture of patient safety by identifying, reporting, and learning from medical mistakes that have or could have harmed patients. In a new study, ...
Jul 15, 2016
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Reducing excessive medical costs associated with high hospital readmission rates is a pillar of health care reform. From 2007 to 2011, as many as 19 percent of patients in the United States returned to hospitals less than ...
Jan 15, 2016
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Sepsis is an inflammatory response to infection that's known to develop in hospital settings and can turn deadly when it's not discovered early on. In a new study, a hospital surveillance program focusing on reducing the ...
Oct 21, 2015
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