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Let's say you have a pretty robust system of patient safety and quality improvement (QI) and are up on all the latest trends in determining what needs attention and how to make effective changes.
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How do you get residents interested and involved in patient safety and quality improvement? It is, after all, one of many requirements made of medical students by the American Council of General Medical Education.
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Out of the 5,800 hospitals in the country, which is the best? Your answer probably depends on the criteria you use to measure the hospital and the peer group against which you measure it.
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In yet another sign that infection control is becoming a national priority across a wide range of accreditors, regulators and state and federal agencies, The Joint Commission has created a new web portal to combine its full array of initiatives to prevent health care associated infections (HAIs).
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The first hospice in the country, The Connecticut Hospice, opened its doors in 1974 and started a movement. Now in a serendipitous turn of events, that hospice was the first one to receive advanced certification under a new program from The Joint Commission.
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With all the talk about needing more outcomes measures rather than process measures, there are some well-loved projects that could get left out in the cold, simply because it is hard to prove they have a direct impact on improved outcomes.
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It has been seven years since Medicare started requiring hospitals to publicly report their performance for core measures related to heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. Ask the hospitals participating in Hospital Compare whether this has affected their quality improvement and patient safety efforts and the vast majority will answer in the affirmative.
