{"title":"Paying for quality: not-for-profit program promotes rewards for performance.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two years ago, the Institute of Medicine report Crossing the Quality Chasm issued a challenge to find ways to reduce the \"burden of illness, injury, and disability\" in the United States while \"improving the health and functioning\" of the population. Last month, a new program called Bridges to Excellence--created by a coalition of major employers, physicians, health plans, and others--was unveiled to meet that goal by rewarding physicians through incentive payments related to performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 5","pages":"10-1, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22443518","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":"Health profession education needs overhaul to improve quality and safety, IOM says.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 5","pages":"13-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22443521","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":"Reasons for crowded EDs vary among hospitals, communities, GAO says.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While no single issue explains the main reason for overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs), the inability to transfer emergency patients to inpatient beds quickly once a decision to admit them has been made appears to be an important contributing factor at many hospitals, according to a new report on ED overcrowding from the U.S. General Accounting Office.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 5","pages":"12-3, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22443519","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":"Supporting quality by building trust.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The issue of healthcare and the lack of trust has grabbed recent headlines. However, for some healthcare organizations, building trust--both throughout the organization and in the community--has become an important touchpoint in delivering quality healthcare. They are finding that trust not only is a driving variable in improving patient compliance and reducing malpractice suits, but it also can provide a distinctive edge in a competitive healthcare environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 5","pages":"2-9, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22450869","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":"Designing for quality: hospitals look to the built environment to provide better patient care and outcomes.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With recent shifts in the marketplace, hospital boards and administrators are increasing their focus on building new facilities or renovating old ones. But rather than stick with models of the past, many of them are beginning to look at the built hospital environment as a way to promote healing, improve clinical outcomes, enhance patient safety, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce costs. At the same time, they also are finding that when changing the physical structure, they must change the internal culture of the organization as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 4","pages":"2-13, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22384368","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":"National Quality Forum endorses safety practices.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 3","pages":"14-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22344637","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":"Using clinical microsystems to improve quality at all levels.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical microsystems--with their emphasis on patients, people, process, and performance patterns--still isn't as well known as other quality improvement terms. But many people familiar with healthcare quality issues think these systems can potentially change the front lines of care delivery--which in turn influence how care is provided throughout larger healthcare organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 3","pages":"2-11, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22344633","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":"Kaiser Permanente gets ready to roll out automated medical records system nationwide.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Use of automated medical records (AMRs) got a boost last month when Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest integrated health management organization, announced that all its regions will begin moving to an AMR system this year. While the system has the obvious advantages of making healthcare records more up-to-date and complete when a patient visits, it also has numerous quality-of-care advantages--both for providers and Kaiser Permanente's 8.5 million members, officials say.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 3","pages":"12, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22344635","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":"Highlighting 2002 award-winning initiatives.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This issue takes an instructive look at four organization--SSM Health Care (based in St. Louis), Children's Hospital and Health Center of San Diego, Concord (NH) Hospital, and McLeod (SC) Regional Medical Center--that received top honors this past year for their ongoing efforts to provide quality healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 2","pages":"2-12, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22297510","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 IOM report targets 20 priority areas to improve healthcare quality.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new Institute of Medicine report lists 20 priority areas with \"the greatest opportunities for closing the gap between known best practice and usual practice\" to reduce unwanted variation and promote quality healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":79751,"journal":{"name":"The Quality letter for healthcare leaders","volume":"15 2","pages":"13-4, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22297511","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}