Hospital Peer Review – November 1, 2013
November 1, 2013
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What do you do when evidence changes?
There has been a lot of talk about the importance of shifting away from process measures to determine quality of care and making more use of outcomes measures. -
What does the 2014 IPPS have in store for you?
Have you read the final rule for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) yet? -
Hospitals slow to join PSOs; deadline looms
State insurance exchanges and the federal marketplace got off to a rough start at the beginning of October. -
Grooming the next QI physician champion
It can be very hard to find a physician champion for quality improvement projects. Docs are busy there are more responsibilities, patients are sicker, days are longer, and resources are tight. -
Cutting into C. diff rates
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) should sound a lot scarier for what it is: the second most common nosocomial infection in hospitals, with an average cost of $5,000 for each patient episode and an extra week in the hospital. -
How do your transitions of care rate?
In the brave new world of healthcare, what goes right and wrong in patient care cant be blamed on someone else along the continuum of care.