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Whether your organization is seeking to reduce process inefficiencies or eliminate the chance of unintended patient harm, action taking is a critical step in the improvement cycle. The cycle involves devising a new or improved process, implementing changes, monitoring the effects of changes, making further adjustments where necessary, and continuing to monitor.
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A quality improvement project at a Michigan long-term care facility resulted in a decrease in the prevalence of chronic pain among its residents from 33% in March 2000 to 18% currently.
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Question: Our hospital routinely surveys patients and family members to gauge satisfaction with our services, but so far we havent really used those results in our accreditation efforts.
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A walking tour of each patient care area that includes clinical alarms could reveal both problems and solutions you might not otherwise consider, says Britton Berek, CCE, MBA, associate director of the standards interpretation group for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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As quality improvement professionals tackle the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations patient safety goals, one of the goals is proving to be more challenging and confounding than the others.
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The Partnership for Human Research Protection recently announced the approval of final standards for a new accreditation program to safeguard the interests of human subjects participating in research efforts.
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Congressional staffers and health policy experts who participated in an Alliance for Health Reform presentation on the Commonwealth Funds proposal for a consensus framework to provide coverage for the uninsured see value in discussing the issue but are far from united about the proposal.
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The barriers to solving the problem of the uninsured do not include a lack of viable solutions. There are a number of reform strategies that would solve the problem, but deciding on a particular one is difficult because all viable solutions require making difficult trade-offs.
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Given the complex set of opinions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 6-3 vote allowing work on Maines prescription drug program to continue, states have been forced to try to determine what impact the decision will have on their efforts to control pharmacy costs and to make cost-effective drugs available to those who need them.