In Brief: Don't wait for CMS move, EDs are told
With the likelihood that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will adopt some or all of the 10 national voluntary consensus standards for hospital-based ED care recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF), experts advise ED managers to begin preparing now to be in compliance. Besides, they argue, the new measures will help them improve the efficiency and quality of their departments.
"ED managers should respond to these measures through their own local performance improvement programs, review these measures, and begin to follow them in their own institutionsand be on the lookout for groups like CMS to include them, perhaps as soon as 2010," advises John Moorhead, MD, professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland. Moorhead co-chairs NQF's steering committee on hospital-based ED care. "These measures are not the be-all and end-all, but they are important steps in terms of our long-term goal of ED quality improvement," he says.
With the likelihood that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will adopt some or all of the 10 national voluntary consensus standards for hospital-based ED care recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF), experts advise ED managers to begin preparing now to be in compliance. Besides, they argue, the new measures will help them improve the efficiency and quality of their departments.You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
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