{"title":"Translating research into practice: intervening to promote better care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Promoting better healthcare means tackling a slew of challenges such as obesity, smoking, and substance abuse. Researchers at the annual \"Translating Research Into Practice\" conference revealed how they are finding new ways to successfully address these challenges-breaking down barriers and providing solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 9","pages":"2-5, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25668758","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":"VHA, Inc., introduces new data-collection tool allowing national and regional comparisons in real-time.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>VHA, Inc., has rebuilt its online comparative clinical measurement (CCM) tool to help get hospital members on the same page in terms of clinical measurement in real-time. In June, it introduced a new version (CCM 2005) that includes the six new clinical goals or \"changes of care\" outlined late last year by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in its 100,000 Lives campaign.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 9","pages":"6-8, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25668759","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":"Engineering a high-quality healthcare system.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 9","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25668760","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":"New Pennsylvania report provides insights on hospital-acquired infections.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 9","pages":"11-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25668761","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":"AHA recognizes hospitals for community health services.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 9","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25668762","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":"AMA Trustees adopt pay for performance principles.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 8","pages":"15-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25705225","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":"Connecting communities: making inroads to exchange electronic healthcare data at the local level.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Standardizing healthcare information exchange and interoperability--which permits the electronic flow of information among medical organizations--could create dollar 77.8 billion in annual savings nationally, according to a recent study. Many models have emerged at the community and regional levels recently to expedite this process. However, the road they follow is new and often lacks guidance. This issue looks at how several organizations are progressing and how they expect their actions to impact the delivery and quality of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 8","pages":"2-10, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25705223","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":"New studies help patients manage their chronic conditions.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing self-management support to patients with chronic conditions contains its own set of challenges to healthcare providers. To assist them, the California Healthcare Foundation has commissioned three reports that examine tools and strategies caregivers can use to help patients improve their health-related behaviors and clinical outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 8","pages":"11-2, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25705224","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":"Making the healthcare system safer with innovation and technology.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The way to move ahead with high-quality healthcare and patient safety is to \"practice, innovate, assess, readjust, and practice some more,\" the administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Carolyn Clancy, MD, said last month at the opening of the agency's 2005 patient safety and health information technology conference. This issue of The Quality Letter for Healthcare Leaders highlights several of those initiatives--ranging from improvement of the discharge process to enhancement of a Web portal that puts health plan members in the driver's seat to observing variations in patient flow--where the power of data is affecting safety and quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 7","pages":"2-11, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25595152","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":"Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia shows how small improvements can help provide high-quality care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the top causes of morbidity and mortality in hospital intensive care units. But new strategies are emerging-including the use of \"ventilator bundles\"-to help hospitals push the rate of VAP down to zero. Lessons can be learned about stopping VAP morbidity and mortality that may provide useful strategies in other clinical areas outside the ICU.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"17 6","pages":"2-10, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24952490","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}