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Hospital Improves Care, Reduces Readmissions Related to Sepsis
As Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model continues to incentivize the transition toward value-based care, hospitals are innovating with new services and capabilities to meet its goals. -
Program Targeting Serious Illnesses Helps Reduce ED Visits, Hospital Readmissions
A healthcare provider’s case management-style program produced a 43% reduction in hospital visits and a 24% reduction in ED visits within an 18-month period, according to authors of a new study.
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Leapfrog Says Patient Safety Measures Improving; Maternity Not So Much
A recent report from the Leapfrog Group — a nonprofit organization that aims to improve healthcare quality by increasing hospital transparency — and Johns Hopkins found that poor hospital performance on 16 patient safety measures caused more than 161,000 deaths annually, a decrease from 2016. -
Nursing Innovation Underutilized, Can Be Leveraged for Career Advancement
A recent report from BDO and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing addresses how clinical and industry leaders are leveraging nurse innovation. -
Duplicate Medical Records Reduced, Improving Patient Safety
Many hospitals and health systems have a duplicate medical record rate that can threaten patient safety by fragmenting the data available to clinicians. Reducing the number of duplicates can improve patient safety. -
Hospital Reduces Invasive Procedures, Uses Escalation Huddles
Dixie Regional Medical Center, part of the Intermountain Healthcare system in St. George, UT, is reporting success with a program called POKE that significantly reduces the number of invasive procedures patients must undergo while hospitalized. -
Medical Education, Embedded Researchers Improve Best Practice Implementation
In addition to the E-SCOPE (Evidence Scanning for Clinical, Operational, and Practice Efficiencies) system that identifies new best practices, Kaiser Permanente created a medical education program to encourage the adoption of quality improvement initiatives. At the time of its report, Kaiser Permanente had more than 130 ongoing quality improvement projects.
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Improve Best Practices Adoption With Acceleration Strategies
Adopting best practices is key to improving quality of care, but once those ideal strategies are identified, it can take an agonizingly long time to actually get an organization to start using them consistently. Some healthcare organizations are finding ways to cut down that long introduction period, which can mean achieving improvements years sooner.
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AMA Backs Policies to Help Homeless Americans
Group pledges support to comprehensive, collaborative efforts to assist this at-risk population.
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