The relationship between measurement and improvement is a familiar one in our everyday lives. If you wear a fitness tracker to measure your daily step count, you might start changing your habits to walk to more places and get more steps in. Healthcare practitioners know well that the same principle applies in quality-improvement initiatives they undertake on a regular basis.
Buckle your seatbelts because this has been a busy week for research news at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (It was also Teen Driver Safety Week, a topic we touched on with one of our blog posts earlier this week and in last week's In the News post.) Cancer research is hitting the accelerator with the release of the national Cancer