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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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Are you compiling and reporting performance measurement date from two core measures, as required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? As of January 2004, youll need to make that three measures.
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Would you like to be responsible for a million-dollar increase in your hospitals bottom line?
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Rising patient infection rates. Adverse patient outcomes. Increased risk to staff. If these arent compelling enough reasons to comply with recent hand hygiene guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), consider this: The only new 2004 National Patient Safety Goal from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations addresses this area specifically.
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While you wish that no patient ever had to wait in any registration area, that's not realistic due to patient volumes and other factors beyond the control of your department.