{"title":"Lab specimen collection system eliminates label sorting.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phlebotomists at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital perform more than 18,000 venipunctures a month to collect blood specimens for laboratory tests. Because each of the blood draws involves handling five or six labels for the tubes that the blood is collected in, it means the hospital prints about 90,000 labels a month, which makesfor a lot of label sorting.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"126-7, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759034","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":"Sentara builds culture of safety based on proven concepts.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"121-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759030","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":"Colorado hospital creates after hours program for children.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It's something that every parent dislikes--their child begins showing signs of an illness after the pediatrician's office closes for the day. Littleton Adventist Hospital has developed a solution that has made treating after-hours pediatric cases easier for everyone.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"128-9, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759035","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":"Population management software improves physician performance.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After eight years of using electronic medical records, one physician group found that its performance on certain measures was no better than practices still using paper records, until they added population management software.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 10","pages":"113-4, 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25681254","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":"Why do some CPOEs work while others flounder?","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When groups from other hospitals come to see the acclaimed computerized physician order entry system (CPOE) at Alamance Regional Medical Center, it's not that hard to tell who will have problems with their own CPOE project.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 10","pages":"117-9, 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25681257","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":"Hospitals open cardiac clinics to improve care for women.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responding to studies that show women are more likely to die from heart disease than men, hospitals around the country are opening specialized heart clinics to improve treatment of heart disease in women.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 10","pages":"115-7, 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25681256","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":"Rapid ED access reduces patients leaving without being seen.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Implementing a brief sign-in process for emergency department patients, and completing full registration later at the bedside, has allowed the University of California, San Diego Medical Center to eliminate a major patient flow bottleneck.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 10","pages":"114-5, 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25681255","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":"Sharing gains with physicians may be legally possible.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals that would like to pay physicians to encourage them to find more cost-effective ways of delivering care have a new tool at their disposal: Gainsharing agreements.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 10","pages":"111-2, 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25681253","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":"Cincinnati hospital uses field ECG to speed angioplasty.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To shorten the time it takes to provide heart attack patients with angioplasty to reopen blocked arteries, The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, tried just about everything. But the various steps taken only shortened the delay between patient arrival and angioplasty by a few minutes. Then the hospital decided to take the ultimate step: equipping and training emergency medical technicians in the field to conduct electrocardiograms and transmit the findings to an emergency physician on duty.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 9","pages":"99-101, 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25647657","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}