Lisa M Schilling, Brittney R Fraumeni, Amy S Nacht, Alison G Abraham, Hannah D Bauguess, Gregory Matesi, Melanie E Fringuello, Leah Rashidyan, Sarah J Billups
{"title":"Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home.","authors":"Lisa M Schilling, Brittney R Fraumeni, Amy S Nacht, Alison G Abraham, Hannah D Bauguess, Gregory Matesi, Melanie E Fringuello, Leah Rashidyan, Sarah J Billups","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000183","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000183","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current maternal care recommendations in the United States focus on monitoring fetal development, management of pregnancy complications, and screening for behavioral health concerns. Often missing from these recommendations is support for patients experiencing socioeconomic or behavioral health challenges during pregnancy. A Pregnancy Medical Home (PMH) is a multidisciplinary maternal health care team with nurse navigators serving as patient advocates to improve the quality of care a patient receives and health outcomes for both mother and infant. Using bivariate comparisons between PMH patients and reference groups, as well as interviews with project team members and PMH graduates, this evaluation assessed the impact of a PMH at an academic medical university on patient care and birth outcomes. This PMH increased depression screenings during pregnancy and increased referrals to behavioral health care. This evaluation did not find improvements in maternal or infant birth outcomes. Interviews found notable successes and areas for program enhancement.</p>","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":"39 3","pages":"123-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140878373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Michaels, Priya Jakhmola, Ira M Lubin, Laura J Fochtmann, Donald E Casey, Frank G Opelka, Julia Skapik, Kevin Larsen, Amrita Tailor, Dyann Matson-Koffman
{"title":"The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age.","authors":"Maria Michaels, Priya Jakhmola, Ira M Lubin, Laura J Fochtmann, Donald E Casey, Frank G Opelka, Julia Skapik, Kevin Larsen, Amrita Tailor, Dyann Matson-Koffman","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000167","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":"39 2","pages":"89-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Diaz-Barbe, Emma He, Misha C Tran, Matthew T Cerasale
{"title":"Improving Equity and Accuracy in Admission Medication Reconciliation.","authors":"Alexandra Diaz-Barbe, Emma He, Misha C Tran, Matthew T Cerasale","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000169","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":"39 2","pages":"92-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Into a General Internal Medicine Residency Clinic.","authors":"Benjamin J Seifer, Kelly A Kieffer","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000168","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":"39 2","pages":"94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Journey's End.","authors":"Donald E Casey","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000166","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":"39 2","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolving Landscape of Emergency Department Patient Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities.","authors":"Daniel L Shaw, David T Chiu, Leon D Sanchez","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000173","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":" ","pages":"86-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139975265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bradley G Hammill, Molly N Hoffman, Amy G Clark, Jonathan G Bae, Richard P Shannon, Lesley H Curtis
{"title":"Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology.","authors":"Bradley G Hammill, Molly N Hoffman, Amy G Clark, Jonathan G Bae, Richard P Shannon, Lesley H Curtis","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000171","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several years ago, the US News and World Report changed their risk-adjustment methodology, now relying almost exclusively on chronic conditions for risk adjustment. The impacts of adding selected acute conditions like pneumonia, sepsis, and electrolyte disorders (\"augmented\") to their current risk models (\"base\") for 4 specialties-cardiology, neurology, oncology, and pulmonology-on estimates of hospital performance are reported here. In the augmented models, many acute conditions were associated with substantial risks of mortality. Compared to the base models, the discrimination and calibration of the augmented models for all specialties were improved. While estimated hospital performance was highly correlated between the 2 models, the inclusion of acute conditions in risk-adjustment models meaningfully improved the predictive ability of those models and had noticeable effects on hospital performance estimates. Measures or conditions that address disease severity should always be included when risk-adjusting hospitalization outcomes, especially if the goal is provider profiling.</p>","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":" ","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10903999/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139935003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Stephen E Asche, Steven P Dehmer, Megan Reams, Elizabeth S Grossman, Leif I Solberg
{"title":"The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study.","authors":"Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Stephen E Asche, Steven P Dehmer, Megan Reams, Elizabeth S Grossman, Leif I Solberg","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000174","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000174","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is difficult to achieve high response rates to Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) surveys collected as part of clinical care. However, they are operationally and clinically important. To understand the impact of text message reminders on response rates to PROMs collected via email as part of routine care for hip or knee replacement surgery, initial nonresponders were randomized to receive a text reminder or not at 7 and 12 days, if needed. At day 7, the overall survey response rate was 63%. Model-derived estimates for survey return after this point were 51.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 48.0%-54.2%) in the text arm compared to 34.5% (95% CI, 31.6%-37.6%) in the no text arm. The effect of text messages on response rates did not vary by subpopulations considered nor were there differences in rates of key outcomes between the 2 groups, suggesting that it did not impact any underlying response bias. Given the relative low cost of text messages, they can be an efficient means to increase response rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":" ","pages":"78-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11366300/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139975266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chizoba Ugwummadu, Eric Schmidt, Mark Hoeprich, Alyssa Bonta, Kay Ridgway, Luella Walker, Julia Witkowski, Jeffrey Weinstein, Mary Reich Cooper
{"title":"Improving Compliance with Preoperative Nasal Povidone-Iodine to Prevent Surgical Site Infection in Vascular and Neurosurgery Services in a Community Teaching Hospital.","authors":"Chizoba Ugwummadu, Eric Schmidt, Mark Hoeprich, Alyssa Bonta, Kay Ridgway, Luella Walker, Julia Witkowski, Jeffrey Weinstein, Mary Reich Cooper","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000172","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surgical site infections (SSI) remain a cause of morbidity, prolonged hospitalization, surgical readmission, and death. Nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus is a frequent cause of device-related SSI and nasal mupirocin has been used for prevention. More recently, povidone-iodine nasal swabs have become an alternative. It is cheaper, ensures compliance and there are no concerns regarding antimicrobial resistance. However, its adoption was suboptimal in a community hospital system in southwestern Ohio, especially in neurosurgery and vascular surgery. Quality improvement techniques, including solicitation of stakeholder input, surgeons and perioperative nurses' education, and the use of reminders to order and administer the povidone-iodine nasal swabs improved physician ordering and nurse administration compliance, leading to fewer infections. The interventions continued after the project was completed, sustaining decreases in neurosurgery and vascular surgery, and fewer SSI through the first years of the pandemic. Despite the complexity of these surgeries, simple interventions were effective in addressing the problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":" ","pages":"59-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139975263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shoshana H Bardach, Amanda N Perry, Evan T Cavanaugh, Albert G Mulley
{"title":"Reflections on 3 Years of Innovation: Recognizing the Need for Innovation Beyond the Clinical Care Pathway.","authors":"Shoshana H Bardach, Amanda N Perry, Evan T Cavanaugh, Albert G Mulley","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000164","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Susan and Richard Levy Healthcare Delivery Incubator is designed to bring about rapid, sustainable, scalable, and transformational health care redesign. All 10 projects in the initial 3 cohorts of teams embraced the Incubator process-forming diverse teams and following a design-thinking informed curriculum-and each successfully implemented improvements or innovations by the end of their project. The purpose of this article is to identify the key features of teams' work that may help account for projects' success. For the 10 projects completed, findings from debrief interviews and staff observations were examined to identify processes key to project's success. Analysis highlighted cross-project learnings that indicate nonclinical aspects of care delivery that play a critical role in project innovation success. Innovating health care delivery requires considering social and political determinants of health. The Incubator's process and structures enable teams to identify and respond to a broad range of health determinants.</p>","PeriodicalId":101338,"journal":{"name":"American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality","volume":" ","pages":"55-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139975264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}