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El Camino Surgery Center in Mountain View, CA, always has scored high in all the categories of the study on Knee Arthroscopy with Meniscectomy benchmark study by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Cares Institute for Quality Improvement.
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Patients face a significant risk for preventable adverse events and serious medical errors in hospital critical care units, according to a study sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Drawing on 20 years of quality improvement experience, MPRO, Michigans Health Care Quality Improvement Organization, is bringing together hospitals, home health agencies, and physician practices to come up with solutions to communications barriers between providers, with the ultimate goal of improving the outcomes for the states cardiovascular disease patients.
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With the goal of boosting outcomes for health plan members, BlueCross Blue Shield of South Carolina has developed a pay-for-performance program open to hospitals and physician groups in the network.
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In todays health care arena, case management duties and job descriptions are changing rapidly, often resulting in feelings of frustration and disconnection among case managers in the managed care industry.
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In addition to providing interpreter services for its increasing immigrant population, staff from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle go into the community, helping eligible patients learn to navigate the health care system.
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Ethics committees have, in the past three decades, become ubiquitous in American hospitals. But while most hospitals have ethics committees, the makeup of those committees can vary depending on the institution they serve.
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With patients being required to pay more of their medical costs, a study getting under way at Wake Forest (NC) University School of Medicine looks at how this added responsibility affects the care that patients receive and what the implications are for health care law and medical ethics.
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Is it ethical to enroll an elderly person with Alzheimers disease in a new research study, even if he or she doesnt really understand what it entails? What if the research has real risks, is unlikely to benefit the patient, but could lead to advances that will help future patients with Alzheimers?
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Many anesthesiologists say its what they fear second only to a patient dying during surgery: A patient wakes up during an operation and, though feeling and hearing what is happening to him or her, is incapable of letting the surgical team know.