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With the unprecedented shortage of influenza vaccine this flu season, hospitals are scrambling to prepare for what may be a record number of flu patients presenting to their already overcrowded emergency departments and for staff shortages due to record absenteeism.
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Even though the flu vaccine shortage has yet to have an impact in terms of an anticipated surge of patients, quality managers and other hospital professionals already are feeling its effects. Tough decisions are being made every day, and they're not always restricted to patient and staff safety issues.
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A multifaceted system of electronic record keeping has enabled the quality staff at Evanston (IL) Northwestern Healthcare (ENH)
to quickly identify and respond to improvement opportunities while also reducing the chances of medication errors.
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The performance improvement team at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has used an employee opinion survey as a guidepost to opportunities for improvement.
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By its very nature and location, the emergency department (ED) inextricably is bound to the rest of the hospital; what occurs there has profound repercussions throughout the facility.
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Insufficient evidence exists to prove that disease management programs can lower overall health care costs, concluded the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in an Oct. 13, 2004, press release.
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What sets one quality improvement program apart from all the others? To hear the staff at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, tell it, it's the unique relationship between the physicians and nurses.
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Clinicians should become confident in management of constipation for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the sheer magnitude of its prevalence in the ambulatory setting.
