{"title":"Flow strategies cover processes in and out of ED.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 3","pages":"33-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28747732","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":"Nurses improve medication administration accuracy.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Frontline nurses often have good ideas, but are not empowered to express or implement them. QI solutions do not have to \"break the bank\" of your hospital. Ongoing monitoring is critical if you want to sustain the gains you achieve.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 2","pages":"16-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28719672","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 the RACs, now wait o for what's coming next.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Auditors could look at quality issues as part of the continuum of care, such as readmissions. Pilot program provides information about RACs but not much information about MICs, which could vary by state. Largest providers in largest population centers likely to be first MIC targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 2","pages":"18-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28719673","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":"Follow-up calls help avoid readmissions.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurse care coordinators, who follow up with patients after discharge, are assigned by service line and follow the patient throughout the hospital stay. Patients who are discharged home with post-acute services, those who will be home alone after a hospital discharge, first-time mothers discharged to home with their babies, families of babies who are discharged from the NICU, and any patient the care coordinator is concerned about after discharge are called. Coordinators use a template to gather specified info from discharge patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 2","pages":"21-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28719675","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":"Hospital reimbursement from all payers is at risk.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Develop a committee to deal with MICs and commercial insurance auditors. Define the record request by type and track deadlines, which may vary. Make sure letters from auditors are looked at directly by the appropriate area.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 2","pages":"20-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28719674","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":"Repeat chronic pain visits reduced from 19 to two.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alert ED physicians about patients at risk for inappropriate use of narcotics. Help patients to set up a patient management contract with a physician. Explain that escalating doses are unsafe.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28684980","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":"Put a stop to registration delays; make these changes.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 1","pages":"10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28684981","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":"Hand-washing compliance goes from 33% to 95%.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hand hygiene no longer infection control's responsibility; it became a hospital-wide initiative. Task force includes staff being groomed for leadership. Posters with catchy slogans serve as staff reminders.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 1","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28684976","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":"Wide-ranging collaborative drives improvement in patient safety.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Access to instant information about medications can help reduce errors. Use of safety culture assessment tool highlights opportunities for improvement. Collaborative model enables hospitals to share successes, failures.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28684975","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":"Keep communication open to keep pharmacy priority.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Build trust with hospital leaders through open lines of communication. Provide data on successful quality and safety projects, as well as cost-savings in pharmacy. Use hallway chit-chat time to let other hospital staff and leaders know about your small successes.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"16 12","pages":"141-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28520666","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}