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Table of Contents – January-March, 2026 Volume 48, Number 1
Article |
Domain |
| Enhancing Health Care Quality and Cost Savings through Maryland’s Value-based Episode Quality Improvement Program (Fernando) | Population Health and Care Transitions |
| Enhanced Discharge Bundles to Reduce Length of Stay (Ohkuma) | Performance and Process Improvement |
| Maintaining Neck Biopsy Diagnostic Yield and Time-to-Biopsy Through Volume Increase: A Quality Improvement Initiative (Guenette) | Performance and Process Improvement |
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Health Literacy and Cardiac Medication Education: A Quality Improvement Study Using Teach-Back (Padda) |
Performance and Process Improvement |
| Implementation of a Cardio-Psychiatry Clinic for Cardiovascular Primary Prevention in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness (Delli Colli) | Population Health and Care Transitions |
| Improvement and Implementation Science to Optimize Statin Therapy in Primary Prevention (Pokharel) | Performance and Process Improvement |
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Evaluation of a Telephone Outreach Intervention on Colonoscopy Completion Rates for Patients with Rectal Bleeding (Amat) |
Performance and Process Improvement |
| The Dugout: Reimagined Team-Based Triage in the Emergency Department (Cooper) | Performance and Process Improvement |
| Impact of Empathic Language in Pre-Appointment Communications on Appointment No Show Rates (Furtado) | Performance and Process Improvement |
| Standardizing Inventory Reduces Reprocessing Time and Costs Through Worker Task Familiarity in Medical Devices (Pathak) | Performance and Process Improvement |
