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A quality improvement project in Dayton, OH, achieved a 36% drop in mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among a group of hospitals cooperating on the effort, and participants say it could not have been done without high-quality data collection.
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Quality improvement projects can be especially challenging if you try to implement them on a systemwide basis across many health care institutions, but a diabetes project in Iowa shows that it can be done if you give people the tools and let individual organizations decide how best to use them.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a good skill for every parent to learn, says Jennifer Bay, RN, BSN, the CPR coordinator for Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Todays case management departments need access to information as quickly as possible, and that can be a challenge unless your hospitals information technology (IT) system is tailored to fit the needs of the department and someone knows how to retrieve the information thats needed, asserts Don Collins, owner of Clarity Report Development, a Paradise, CA, computer technology consulting firm.
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When Carol Reeder, RN, BSN, MSA, first goes into a hospital to consult on setting up a physician-aligned case management model, she encourages case managers to try to understand what physicians have to deal with in their daily practice.
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Before INTEGRIS Rural Health (IRH) implemented its physician-aligned model of case management, the process was piecemeal throughout the eight-hospital system.
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The Stanford (CA) University protocol application form includes a section that examines potential conflict of interest through seven questions.
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Physicians often have to give bad and distressing news to patients. The screening tests have found cancer. An ultrasound shows that a pregnancy is not progressing normally. A planned treatment regimen is not having the desired result.
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In July 2002, the North Carolina Medical Board made history by becoming the first state board to revoke the license of a physician for giving what it considered to be false and misleading testimony in a medical malpractice case.
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The department of maternal and fetal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville, TN, sees many patients referred in from rural parts of the state to receive specialized care not available in their own communities.