This is the third book in a series designed to widely share innovations in patient care. This book includes improvement strategies selected by two leaders at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). These approaches are reliable, innovative, ready for implementation, and have been tested and used successfully. Each chapter provides a description of the strategy, an example of the strategy in practice, and, in most cases, the results that have been achieved when the strategy was applied.

Ideas explored in this book include: