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Is a common framework for quality possible, given the wide variety of facilities and systems that exist? Is such a framework a worthy goal? And if the answer to the first two questions is yes, how are quality managers to balance that commonality with the needs of patients and their own unique set of priorities?
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The Chicago-based American Hospital Association (AHA) recently renewed its call for hospitals to participate in a national voluntary initiative, devoted to developing a common framework for measuring hospital care quality and disclosing that information to the public.
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Hospital health care professionals are no strangers to corporate mergers, which can present some unique challenges when it comes to benchmarking.
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New clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, detection, and treatment of high blood pressure have been released by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, MD.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD, has developed a new web-based tool that can help hospitals enhance their patient safety performance by quickly detecting potential medical errors in patients who have undergone medical or surgical care.
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Changes are needed in the education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals to improve patient safety and quality of care, according to a new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in Washington, DC.
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In practice, the ability of medical staff to detect delirium may not always be straightforward. In a typical busy emergency department, constraints on time can impair the collection of salient historical points and observation of the more subtle clinical signs. Therefore, delirium often is missed, overlooked as senescence, or incorrectly diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder or dementia.
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