{"title":"Establishing criteria for physicians lowers hip fracture mortality.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Establishing criteria for physicians lowers hip fracture mortality. Hundreds of physicians with privileges at Staten Island University Hospital were told that they no longer could assess and treat patients who had suffered a hip fracture. It may sound like a bitter pill for the doctors to swallow, but the decision turned out to be the right one for the 785-bed hospital, located in the New York City borough of Staten Island.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 1","pages":"6-10, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25016740","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":"Florida hospital saves 5.3 M dollars by adopting principles of lean manufacturing.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Florida hospital saves 5.3M dollars by adopting principles of lean manufacturing. Surgery cancellations have been slashed from 13% of cases to less than 3%, while emergency department admissions have increased by 20%. Those are just two of the results of a quality improvement project at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, FL, that focused on using the principles of lean manufacturing to improve patient flow in the five-hospital system</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 1","pages":"10-11, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25016741","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":"Glucose control reduces ICU stay and mortality.","authors":"James Krinsley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensive monitoring and control of blood glucose levels in intensive care unit patients has resulted in significant clinical improvements at The Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT. Mortality for ICU patients is down 29%, while the length of stay in the ICU has decreased by nearly 11%.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 1","pages":"4-6, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25016739","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":"Physician's groups in California get dollars 50 million for performance in program's first year.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"8 12","pages":"140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24926801","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}