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Quick Wins: Blood Draws, Infection Rates, Sepsis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has had success with several quick wins through the kind of quality improvement effort that yields meaningful change without requiring a lot of time, money, or effort.
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‘Purposeful Rounding’ Mixes Security, Clinical Teams to Help De-Escalate Tense Situations
Concerned about the rise in workplace violence across the United States, administrators at St. Louis-based SSM Health decided they needed to look for new solutions to the problem in their network of hospitals. They came up with “purposeful rounding,” a concept based on the idea that if security personnel are more integrated into the care team, there is a better chance of de-escalating behaviors so situations do not turn into major disruptions or violent acts.
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Medical Roundtables Helpful in Workers’ Compensation Cases
One strategy for resolving workers’ compensation claims as quickly and optimally as possible is to assemble a medical roundtable of professional experts to review claims.
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Home-Based Palliative Care Program Keeps Patients Out of the Hospital
A North Carolina palliative care program employs doctors and other members of a healthcare team to help keep patients out of the hospital through in-home, quality care.
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Hospital Improves Care, Reduces Readmissions Related to Sepsis
As Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model continues to incentivize the transition toward value-based care, hospitals are innovating with new services and capabilities to meet its goals. -
Program Targeting Serious Illnesses Helps Reduce ED Visits, Hospital Readmissions
A healthcare provider’s case management-style program produced a 43% reduction in hospital visits and a 24% reduction in ED visits within an 18-month period, according to authors of a new study.
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Leapfrog Says Patient Safety Measures Improving; Maternity Not So Much
A recent report from the Leapfrog Group — a nonprofit organization that aims to improve healthcare quality by increasing hospital transparency — and Johns Hopkins found that poor hospital performance on 16 patient safety measures caused more than 161,000 deaths annually, a decrease from 2016. -
Nursing Innovation Underutilized, Can Be Leveraged for Career Advancement
A recent report from BDO and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing addresses how clinical and industry leaders are leveraging nurse innovation.