Hospital Peer Review
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Handle Peer Review Records Carefully to Ensure the Most Legal Protection
Most states offer legal protection to peer review records to encourage the free exchange of information necessary for assessing and improving clinician performance. However, that protection can be limited, and missteps can make that data available to plaintiff attorneys.
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In Quality Improvement, Emphasize Consistency, Error Metrics
Quality improvement efforts often fall short by not following through with measurement after implementing new guidelines or care processes. Measuring how often clinicians actually follow through is a vital benchmark.
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Transparency, Organization Improve Relations with Board, Top Execs
Quality improvement professionals know their efforts will be more successful when they gain the support of the hospital board of directors and top executive leaders. However, it can be difficult to obtain this backing. Organizing data and intentions properly, as well as transparency regarding current operations, are key.
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Hospitals Cut Common Infection Cases by Half with Scalable Process for System Goals
Research suggests mergers may cause a quality decline. When hospitals in Massachusetts were facing a merger, leaders sought to address the quality issue head-on and achieved substantial improvements in some categories, including a reduction in Clostridioides difficile cases.
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After Identifying Best Practices, Implement Them Effectively
The goal should be for a patient to experience evidence-based practice throughout the entire care journey, from admission to discharge.
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Evidence-Based Practice Should Be Goal for Everyone
Evidence-based practice is a proven approach for hospitals as well as individual physicians and nurses, but it is not always easy to implement beyond a project-by-project approach.
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COVID-19 Prompts Leapfrog to Change Surveys for 2020
The Leapfrog Group is making changes to its survey program for 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including an option that allows hospitals to maintain their 2019 results instead of receiving new results for 2020.
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How Hospital Won Top Designation from Leapfrog Group
The award was the result of the hospital making itself a data-driven organization that is supported by a robust quality and clinical effectiveness department.
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Stroke Program Survey Includes Data Review, Close Observation
An inside look at how one agency conducts its stroke survey process.