Articles Tagged With: Benchmarking
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Compliance Requirements Continue to Change, Need Close Attention
Healthcare compliance is a never-ending challenge, and the expectations change constantly. Staying abreast of new developments is essential. Some of the latest involve the False Claims Act, Medicare risk adjustments, and HIPAA enforcement.
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Experts Urge ED Leaders to Refocus Efforts on Antimicrobial Stewardship
Early advocates of antimicrobial stewardship tended to focus on prescribing in outpatient settings. In recent years, attention has shifted toward the ED — and there are many good reasons for this shift.
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Effect of COVID-19 on Patient Severity of Illness, Evaluating Hospital Performance
Patients with COVID-19 not only experience a higher mortality rate, but also a longer length of stay than other viral illness patients, even when adjusted for other patient factors such as age and comorbidities. Because of this, it is a challenge to evaluate hospital performance during the pandemic. -
Initiative Focuses on Patient Harm Caused by Diagnostic Errors
The initiative will establish a benchmarking system, which will allow EDs to find out how they compare to other facilities.
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Free benchmarking information available for ambulatory surgery
You don’t have to go digging through mountains of data to find benchmarking information. As part of our cost-saving issue, Same-Day Surgery offers free statistics from the ASC Quality Collaboration.
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Assessment failures lead to diagnostic errors
In most cases, a diagnostic error can be traced to a failure in assessing the patient, according to the results of CRICO Strategies’ 2014 annual benchmarking report Malpractice Risks in the Diagnostic Process.
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These steps can make benchmarking work well
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New application tracks nursing care, results
A software application developed by the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor offers the promise of providing a means to collect comparable data for nursing care in the areas of diagnosis, intervention, and outcomes, resulting in far more accurate information both for self-evaluation and benchmarking across health care organizations. -
Benchmarking process: Select targets for change
Collection of baseline data was completed in spring 2000; the findings did not hold any major surprises, recalls Julie Jones, MA, director of resource development for the CHA. -
Radiology benchmarking data a hot commodity