{"title":"Software points out where performance needs improvement.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quality improvement analysts are accustomed to running reports--lots of them--to identify areas of hospital activity that can use improvement. The work of calculating performance rates and comparing those to national benchmarks is time consuming and somewhat tedious. It doesn't have to be that way.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 5","pages":"54-5, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25159588","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":"Antibiotic cycling can reduce resistance, but it may cost more--in the short run.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>You may be bored reading about antibiotic resistance, but what about a study that shows you a way to help attack the problem?</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 5","pages":"57-8, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25159590","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":"Washington, DC, clinic to increase efficiency of diabetes care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>La Clinica del Pueblo is about to take a leap forward with the help of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, a major insurer covering the District of Columbia. The company is providing 360,000 dollars in funding over three years for the clinic to implement a cutting-edge system for treating patients with diabetes.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 5","pages":"55-7, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25159589","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":"Targeted employee training lowers registration error rate.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The registration error rate at the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation was running about 30%, and that was having a negative impact on both billing and collections operations. The health system created a process to identify the employees committing the most errors, and then individual workers were provided with additional information and training ro help improve their accuracy. The result was a dramatic performance improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 5","pages":"52-3, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25159587","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 failure program expands reach to more hospitals.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 4","pages":"46-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25127422","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":"California hospital drops surgical infection rate to zero.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2003, the 448-bed Glendale Adventist Medical Center had a cardiac deep wound infection rate of 7%. Just a year later, the hospital succeeded in lowering that infection rate to zero.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 4","pages":"42-4, 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25127420","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":"Geisinger checklist speeds transfer of heart attack patients.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In cardiology, there is a saying that \"time is muscle.\" The longer it takes to reopen a heart attack patient's blocked artery, the more damage is done to the heart muscle. Cardiologists and emergency department physicians at Geisinger Medical Center are working together to shorten the time that it takes for patients to receive angioplasty, thus saving more heart muscle.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 4","pages":"40-2, 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25127419","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":"NY health plan, doctors partner on pay for performance system.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 4","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25127418","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":"Duke University Hospital uses rapid deployment to implement CPOE, clinical decision support.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>These are trying times for advocates of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). A recent study in JAMA identified more than 20 types of error risks that were caused by a CPOE system. Market research indicates that fewer than 10% of provider organizations have implemented CPOE systems, with very slow growth forecast. But the rapid--and so far, successful--deployment of a CPOE with a clinical decision support component at Duke University Hospital shows a more positive side.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 4","pages":"44-6, 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25127421","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}