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Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence, sponsored by the American Hospital Association Quality Center, features field-tested practices and proven strategies to advance hospital leaders’ ongoing efforts to achieve performance excellence — care that meets the IOM aims (safe, timely, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and patient-centered). Available for free download from the site: a full-text guide of case studies focused on four key topics (healthcare-aquired infection, patient flow, medication management, safety); resources; and more case studies on additional topics.

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The Institute for Healthcare Optimization (IHO) is an independent non-profit research, education, and service organization focused on decreasing the cost of health care and improving its quality by applying Operations Management science and Variability Methodology principles and practices to health care delivery.

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The Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center (EMLRC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and advancing emergency medicine, disaster management, pre-hospital emergency care and public health through the provision of educational and research programs. The EMLRC provides lifesaving education for lifesavers.

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This website contains information on queueing theory collected by Dr. Myron Hlynka of the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It includes a list of books on queueing theory, a list of home pages, and a list of email addresses for queueing theorists.

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The eMedicine website offers evidence-based content and provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties including a page focused on patient flow.

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International

The ARCHI website offers information to support and increase the implementation of effective and quality innovations in clinical care in Australian hospital settings and at the interface of hospitals and other health care providers, offering lessons for a wider international health care improvement audience.

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Professional Associations

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is a multidiscplinary membership organization whose goal is to ensure excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care medicine, representing all components on the critical care team. SCCM has published admission, discharge, and triage criteria for adult and pediatric intensive care units and step down units.

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