Development and Evaluation of a Nurse Leadership Succession Planning Strategy in an Academic Medical Center.

Absence of nurse manager succession planning in an academic medical center necessitated a quality improvement project to identify, select, and enroll emerging leaders into a development program. The authors used organizational competencies and an evidence-based approach to effectively identify barriers, select future nurse leaders, and discover opportunities for process improvement.

The impact of microsatellite stability status in colorectal cancer.

Several forms of genomic instability are known to drive the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Chromosomal instability is the most common type found in 85% of the CRC, while 15% patients have microsatellite instability (MSI). MSI tumors are the subset of CRC that are characterized by dysfunction of mismatch repair genes (MMR) causing failure to repair errors in repetitive DNA sequences called microsatellites.

Healthcare's Future: Strategic Investment in Technology.

Recent and rapid advances in the implementation of technology have greatly affected the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery in the United States. Simultaneously, diverse generational pressures-including the consumerism of millennials and unsustainable growth in the costs of care for baby boomers-have accelerated a revolution in healthcare delivery that was marked in 2010 by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.Against this backdrop, Maryland and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services entered into a partnership in 2014 to modernize the Maryland All-Payer Model.

Extremit-Ease compression garment: A review and cases.

The rates of chronic oedema in the US continue to grow from multiple causative factors. One such factor is the skyrocketing rates of morbid obesity. There are about 40 million obese people in the US today.

A hospital CEO's perspective: radiology should lead the way in reforming health care delivery.

Radiology and medical imaging systems play a central role in most health care systems. As science and technology have advanced, the ability to medically image and diagnose anatomic and physiologic pathology has increased exponentially. This capability is identified as a necessary core competency of all "general hospitals" by the American Hospital Association.