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At Swedish Medical Center's ED in Seattle, WA, all clinical staff wear locator badges [manufactured by Versus, based in Traverse City, MI] that identify where specific individuals are located, both via a light above the patient rooms and on a tracking view of a computer.
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The 49-year-old woman reported classic heart attack symptoms -- chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea -- to nurses at an Illinois ED.
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Only 43%-64% of adult ED pneumonia patients in two Pennsylvania EDs got antibiotics within four hours as recommended by current guidelines, says a new study.
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A patient comes to your ED with a severe asthma attack holding an empty inhaler, and he says he ran out of medication weeks ago.
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In one year, the emergency department's contribution to major mislabeling events at Boston Medical Center was reduced from 47% (23/49) to 14% (4/29) thanks to a proactive quality improvement program.
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Standards put in place in 2003 to ensure ample sleep for interns are not being complied with, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) asserts in its latest report, The State of Health Care Quality 2006, that the results demonstrate "the long-term transformative effects of quality measures over the duration [of the reports]."
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Joining a growing group of organizations that finds merit in a pay-for-performance approach to quality improvement, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended that Medicare should gradually replace its current fee-for-service payment system with a new pay-for-performance system.
