We're Making Sure Our Best Practices Make the Rounds

From medical breakthroughs to the latest treatments, America's medical schools and teaching hospitals, and their physicians and scientists, have a legacy of advancing medicine and setting the standard for the best patient care. Now, we are working together to create Best Practices for Better care, a multi-year initiative to improve the quality and safety of health care.

Through Best Practices for Better Care, we are putting proven practices in place to ensure safer surgeries, reduce infections and cut hospital readmissions. We are building an even stronger culture of quality and safety in medicine by passing on these best practices to every new doctor we train and making sure quality and safety is part of medical education from day one. And through research and evaluation, we will continue to refine these best practices, discover new ones, and share our knowledge with others to improve health and health care in the future.

To date, more than 230 medical schools and teaching hospitals and health systems are participating in this unique effort. Together, these institutions represent 13 percent of hospital admission nationwide and train nearly 43 percent of the nation's doctors.

Watch the videos above from the Jun 14 briefing to learn more about the initiative.

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