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Grading hospitals like restaurants
Does the way restaurants are inspected for cleanliness in New York City have anything to teach the people who rate hospitals?
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Over time, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program pays off, study suggests
It’s the kind of study with relatively expected results: A program that takes data and uses it to improve performance shows that participating organizations, over time, do better than their counterparts who don’t participate.
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Quick test highlights frail patients
What if there was a test you could do on patients in under a minute that would tell you which of them were most likely to have post-surgical complications?
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Addressing the problem of diagnostic errors
At the beginning of March, Mark Graber MD, got a call from The Joint Commission informing him that he was one of the winners of the John M. Eisenberg awards for patient safety and quality. This individual achievement was given to Graber because of his extensive work in the field of recognizing, measuring, and finding ways to minimize diagnostic errors in healthcare. It is a topic that hasn’t gotten a lot of press up until now, but which Graber told Hospital Peer Review.
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CMS quality measures report finds improvement
The annual National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Measures Report shows a largely positive picture of the healthcare industry and its uptake of quality measures. It’s not surprising: Every report that has come out has shown good, sometimes great results for various metrics. Some have more direct impact on patients than others.
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Are patient access staff accountable? Be sure that they are with KPIs
Lack of accountability is a primary concern for patient access departments lacking good key performance indicators. Many patient access leaders use HFMA’s MAP Patient Access Keys to track revenue cycle performance. -
Failure to treat bacterial infection from routine injection results in $2.3M verdict
Physicians and healthcare providers must recognize that HAIs are common, and when they are treating a patient who recently has received healthcare services or undergone a procedure involving an injection, extra precautions should be taken to rule out the possibility of an infection.
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Jury awards verdict of $5.2 million after diagnosis error and above-the-knee amputation
‘High-low’ agreement reduces verdict to $1.5 million
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Manual helps to improve medication reconciliation
Unintentional medication discrepancies during transitions in care pose a major threat to patient safety, with up to 67% of inpatients having at least one unexplained discrepancy in their prescription medication history at the time of admission, according to the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) in Philadelphia.
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Malpractice suit filed in Joan Rivers’ death
Melissa Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit recently against doctors and the clinic where her mother, Joan Rivers, died after a routine medical procedure.