Hospital Peer Review
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Study slams Joint Commission’s approach to measuring quality
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Reader Question: Remember diplomacy in peer review process
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Patient Satisfaction Planner: Learn to Follow the Hospitality Golden Rules
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New focus for surveyors: Emergency management
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JCAHO joins The Leapfrog Group as a formal partner
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CQI ‘business as usual’? Not for patient safety
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Study shows gap in care for discharged patients
Knowing your readmission rate is critical and will become even more important as the health care industry waits for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' decision on how to alter reimbursement based on rehospitalization rates. -
Swine flu Q&A with UPMC biosecurity expert
Dr. Eric Toner is a senior associate with the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He is a physician board certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine. -
Patient Satisfaction Planner: Making sure all voices are heard
Some health care facilities provide medical treatment to people throughout the United States, while others serve those who live in the surrounding neighborhood. -
Patient Satisfaction Planner: ED triage improves patient flow
A new emergency department (ED) triage system at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, FL, decreased the time that elapses between when patients arrive and when they are treated by 33%, slashed the number of patients who left without treatment by 50%, and cut 20 minutes off the total turnaround time from when patients arrive at the ED and when they are discharged or admitted.