{"title":"Coordination with EMS improves stroke treatment.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A tight relationship with emergency medical services technicians in the field, as well as increased physician and community education about stroke, has made Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA, one of the highest scoring institutions in a national stroke benchmarking project.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 7","pages":"77-9, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24968885","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":"Medicaid managed care program provides fiscal rewards for performance.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Commercial insurers across the country are paying bonuses to physicians and hospitals that meet or exceed quality and performance goals. But now a Medicaid managed care program is using pay-for-performance incentives to prompt hospitals to take better care of its members.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 7","pages":"80-1, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24968887","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":"North Carolina hospitals have access to statewide stroke registry.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals in North Carolina are turning to an interactive electronic tool to monitor the quality of stroke care they provide and identify areas for performance improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 7","pages":"79-80, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24968886","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":"Pittsburgh hospital increases OR utilization by 60%.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By setting some stricter ground rules for scheduling surgical cases, St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA has been able to increase the utilization rate of its 11 operating rooms from 45% to 72%.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 6","pages":"65-6, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25245457","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":"Hospitalists take on role in rapid response teams with early success.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement came out with its campaign to save 100,000 lives last December, one of the most prominent of the six suggestions made was for hospitals to form rapid response teams that would be available to check on at-risk patients before they became critically and irreversibly ill.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 6","pages":"69-71, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25245460","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":"Successful surgical benchmarking program moves to private sector.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the late 1980s, Congress passed a law requiring all Veterans' Administration hospitals to report surgical outcomes annually on a risk-adjusted basis and compare them to national averages in the private sector. However, those national averages did not exist. Fifteen years later, efforts to remedy that oversight have led to the creation of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and dramatic successes in both patient care and cost management.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 6","pages":"67-9, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25245459","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":"Heart specialists incorporate performance improvement measures into EMR.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Midwest Heart Specialists, a physician-owned cardiovascular practice with 55 specialists serving the Chicago area, saved millions of dollars in 2004 on hospitalization costs for patients with coronary artery disease by integrating performance data collection into its existing electronic medical records system.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 6","pages":"66-7, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25245458","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":"Poster helps to lower elevated blood glucose levels.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Educating clinicians about when elevated blood glucose levels should be controlled, along with implementing standardized insulin protocols and post-operative orders, has greatly improved the treatment of patients with diabetes at Torrance Memorial Medical Center.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 6","pages":"63-5, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25245456","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}