{"title":"Flow management brings peace to NH hospital's maternity ward.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early mornings used to be a turbulent time in the maternity ward at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH, Obstetricians were scheduling many induced and caesarian deliveries to begin first thing in the morning, but often there weren't enough beds to handle both the scheduled and unplanned deliveries.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 3","pages":"27-9, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25272343","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":"Kentucky health system to publicly report more than 200 indicators.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a major upgrade of its performance improvement effort, Norton Healthcare of Louisville, KY, has announced plans to measure and publicly report more than 200 indicators by this spring.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 3","pages":"31, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25272347","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":"Investing in technology and employees makes NJ hospital a quality leader.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When a patient arrives at the emergency department of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, in Hamilton Township, N.J., a long wait for service is not in the cards. That's because the hospital guarantees patients they'll be seen by a nurse within 15 minutes and a physician within 30 minutes.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 3","pages":"29-31, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25272346","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":"Medication safety guidelines offer minimum and best practice standards.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guidelines from Wisconsin pharmacists offer drug safety measures to all healthcare professionals in a variety of settings. The guidelines are distinguishable from other recently released drug safety suggestions from several healthcare and government organizations because they have two levels: minimum and best practice standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 3","pages":"33-5, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25099780","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":"Long Island Health System standardizes care across 16 hospitals.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With 16 hospitals, there is a lot of potential for variation within the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. But patients are assured that when they walk into one North Shore-LIJ hospital for treatment, the care they receive will be just as good as that provided in the system's other facilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 2","pages":"16-8, 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25045441","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":"Quality, patient safety recognized in incentive plans, survey finds.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In an effort to improve the quality of care, healthcare organizations are likely to include quality performance targets in their incentive plans, according to a survey.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 2","pages":"21-2, 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25045444","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":"Warfarin protocol yields big reduction in adverse drug events.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 2","pages":"13-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25045440","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":"Wound care center improves treatment, increases revenues.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients are traveling to the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Shawnee Mission, KS, for help with a painful and stubborn problem: wound care. Surgical openings that have failed to heal properly, along with wounds caused by infections, trauma, and diabetes, are treated at the wound care center with more than a 90% success rate.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 2","pages":"18-20, 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25045442","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":"Benchmarking project spurs better guideline adherence.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A relatively simple benchmarking method has paid off in improved quality of care for Alabama diabetes patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 2","pages":"20-1, 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25045443","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}