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The health care system benefits when unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided, and sometimes the best place to impact that trend is by focusing discharge services on the hospital emergency department (ED), an expert says.
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When a hospital in downtown Knoxville, TN, closed and volume soared at other nearby hospitals, two hospitals in the Covenant Health System joined forces to develop a systematic approach to capacity management that allows each hospital to create variances in the process to meet its individual needs.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on April 13 released the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report, which are used by a variety of health care stakeholders to evaluate quality and access to care.
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Calling patients after hospital discharge is a good quality improvement and patient satisfaction strategy, but it is often difficult to implement because of resource restraints.
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Some very common and some seemingly innocuous medications can have a very deleterious impact on older patients.
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Hospital pharmacies can improve their own systems and promote pharmacists for hospital system leadership positions by using a microsystem design process to improve their care delivery.
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Pharmacy leaders who have trained to learn microsystem design will first select an area, such as medication safety, that needs to be improved.
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New research suggests that hospitals and clinical pharmacists might improve safety if they change policies regarding the use of extended-duration enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in acutely ill patients.
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Hospital pharmacists, physicians, and others hopefully soon will have new hypertension and cholesterol guidelines available to inform hospital formulary and clinical practice decisions.
