{"title":"Hospital Compare drives hospital performance improvement initiatives.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On April 1, 2005, the impetus for public reporting of comparative hospital data was ratcheted up a giant notch by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance. Even before reaching the public's radar screen, Hospital Compare--a website that includes quality measures on how often large, acute-care and smaller, critical care hospitals provide recommended treatments that adults should receive for certain conditions--is having a major impact on hospital performance initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 9","pages":"103-7, 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25647659","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":"Reducing employee turnover saves millions for health system.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 9","pages":"97-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25647655","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":"Alabama hospitals reduce infections by 19%.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By using an automated system which quickly points out which patients have developed infections, hospitals in Alabama have been able to reduce the nosocomial infection rate by 19% and save millions of dollars in treatment costs. Not only are hospitals responding to individual infections faster, they are also using the system to analyze trends and implement performance improvements to prevent infections from happening in the first place.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 9","pages":"101-3, 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25647658","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":"Boosting staff morale helps improve patient satisfaction score.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boosting staff morale helps improve patient satisfaction score. In less than five years, Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, IL, improved its emergency department's patient satisfaction scores almost five-fold, moving them into the top tier of all hospitals surveyed in 2004. This drastic turnaround involved changes to both the physical and managerial structure of the department, creating new staff positions for patient advocacy, and implementing a regular schedule of meetings targeting quality improvement at multiple levels of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 8","pages":"93-4, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25596436","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":"Virginia Mason embraces employee productivity ideas.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Virginia Mason embraces employee productivity ideas. When an employee at the Virginia Mason Medical Center, in Seattle, WA, has an idea about how to improve productivity, he or she is encouraged to fill out an idea form. These suggestions are not dismissed by management. Instead, there is a well-defined process to adopt as many of them as possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 8","pages":"90-3, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25596435","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":"Better understanding of ADEs could cut readmission rates.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Better understanding of ADEs could cut readmission rates. One large factor in readmissions is adverse drug reactions and two recent studies are shedding new light on both primary causes and solutions. One study found medication changes during transfers of care from an acute to long term setting were a prime cause of adverse drug events. Another looked at using a pharmacist coordinator to facilitate transfer out of the acute care setting as a way to lower unplanned readmission rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 8","pages":"88-9, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25596434","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":"Michigan insurer funds effort to improve cardiac surgery.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Michigan insurer funds effort to improve cardiac surgery. Every year about 20,000 adults undergo surgery in Michigan for coronary artery bypass grafts and other cardiac procedures. A new performance improvement project funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will focus on reducing complications and making those procedures safer.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 8","pages":"94-5, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25596437","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":"Risk managers looking to EMR systems for proactive reduction of medical errors.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An initiative combining risk management and electronic medical records (EMRs) at MedStar Health, Columbia, MD, is expected to reduce medical errors and cut malpractice losses by an average of approximately $2 million a year.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 7","pages":"81-3, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24968888","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":"Better heart failure patient education yields results at Texas hospital.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Improved education of patients with chronic heart failure has allowed Harris Methodist Forth Worth Hospital, Fort Worth, TX, to achieve a target of 90% compliance on several measures of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 7","pages":"76-7, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24968884","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}