Hospital Peer Review – February 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
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Hospitals Reduce Harm While Focusing on Fewer Metrics
Metrics can pile up until they become overwhelming to clinicians and administrators alike, with their usefulness lost in the process. The solution may be to strategically reduce the number of routinely reportable metrics to only those most appropriate and valuable.
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Data Analytics and AI Help Improve Patient Care
A network of hospitals, clinics, and home care services in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin has improved clinical effectiveness, care quality, and patient experience by looking at risk analytics and applying the findings to patient care.
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PAs Provide More Patient Contact, Reduce LOS, and Maintain Quality
Northwest Hospital, part of LifeBridge Health in Randallstown, MD, can employ nearly two PAs for the cost of a physician, so patients can be seen more frequently. They make up one of several strategies the hospital uses to make the observation unit as efficient as possible.
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Hospital Plays to Surgeons’ Competitive Nature to Raise Quality
Outcomes at Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, CA, already were good when quality leaders thought they might improve even more if they posed blinded and coded data on patient-reported outcomes for the surgeons to see how they fared in comparison with their peers.
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Hospital Satisfaction Data Affected by Noise
Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, CA, publishes its outcomes data every year, reporting improvements in quality along with illustrations of how the hospital addresses deficiencies.
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CMS Describes Measures Considered for 2018
CMS has issued a list of 32 measures it is considering for 2018 that could drive quality improvement in various healthcare settings.
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Barcode Medication Errors Reported for Analysis
Pennsylvania healthcare facilities increasingly have reported patient safety events associated with a technology used to prevent medication-administration errors.