{"title":"10-year outline unveiled to roll out health information technology.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology unveiled a 10-year plan to develop a national electronic health infrastructure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 9","pages":"9-10, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24770650","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":"Turning research into practice: cases on adopting evidence-based innovations for everyday care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Turning clinical research and innovations into actual practices that enhance quality care--at both the hospital level and the health system level--can be challenging. But many organizations are finding creative ways to get those ideas on the front line.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 9","pages":"2-3, 5-9, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24770648","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":"Lessons on speeding up adoption of research into everyday practice.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many evidence-based programs and interventions have been adopted into clinical practice only partially if at all. But several successful clinical programs highlight lessons to be learned to make those practices reality.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 9","pages":"4-5, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24770649","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":"195,000 annual deaths linked to in-hospital errors, study says.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Approximately 195,000 people in the United States died from potentially preventable in-hospital medical errors--or double the highest number estimated by the Institute of Medicine in its 1999 landmark report--in 2000, 2001, and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 9","pages":"10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24770651","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":"First national survey measures parents' opinions on the quality, content of well-child visits.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When it comes to pediatric checkups, parent satisfaction ratings appear to be strongly related to the content and quality of the care their children receive. However, only 57% of parents reported that their child received a developmental assessment screening procedure to detect disabilities that could compromise learning, social interactions, and other functions, according to a first-ever nationwide pediatric study.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 8","pages":"11-2, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40914507","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":"NCQA adds four new measures to HEDIS 2005.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 8","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40914508","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":"Healthcare quality expert Quint Studer finds the road to organizational success follows the path of employees, physicians, and patients.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Quint Studer was president of Baptist Hospital, Inc., in Pensacola, FL, he oversaw a metamorphosis in which the organization's patient and employee satisfaction levels rose to some of the highest rankings in the nation. Now, as head of his own company and author of a new book, he's telling other hospitals and healthcare systems how they can \"hardwire excellence\" and be the quality organizations they want to be.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 8","pages":"2-10, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40914506","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":"Evaluating quality and health system performance from an international perspective.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Commonwealth Fund's International Working Group on Quality Indicators has brought together representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom to look at which indicators could help benchmark and compare health system performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 7","pages":"6-9, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24680988","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":"Evidence-based design can improve health outcomes, study says.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the availability of hundreds of evidence-based studies, many hospitals--caught up in a wave of new construction and development--are running afoul of the cardinal rule of medicine: First, do no harm, says a new industry report.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 7","pages":"9-11, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24680989","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 national report card shows quality of care has room for improvement in all communities across the country.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Is quality healthcare in the United States making the grade in any community? According to researchers in a new RAND Corp. report, poor preventive, acute, and chronic care exist everywhere. The researchers say the study should serve as \"a wake-up call\" for all communities to evaluate and improve their quality of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"16 7","pages":"2-6, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24680987","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}