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For community health care centers involved in the study of initiating rapid HIV screening, one of the key take-home messages is that this can be done efficiently with a little help from friends.
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As the percentage of women impacted by HIV increases, researchers and clinicians need to learn more about how HIV-infected women differ in adherence and treatment than HIV-infected men.
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The latest iteration of the DHHS guidelines was released December 1, 2009.
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Quality experts have long bemoaned the fact that medical students are taught precious little about quality and patient safety, but that trend has been changing thanks to a program sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
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Exeter (NH) Hospital has already demonstrated its ability to improve quality and patient safety, but it's nowhere near finished.
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The fire safety standards set forth by The Joint Commission, which have low compliance rates, should receive special attention from ED managers.
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As of January 2010, The Joint Commission has incorporated into its Quality Check web site (www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchQCR.aspx) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia Medicare patients.
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With The Joint Commission incorporating the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia Medicare patients into its Quality Check web site (www.qualitycheck.org), the performance of individual facilities will come under greater scrutiny.
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Because many throughput problems experienced by EDs are not caused by EDs, those managers who find themselves operating in a vacuum have little chance of success.
