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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently released draft standards for its Human Research Protection Accreditation Program (HRPAP) for public comment.
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Evaluating the continuity of patient care in ambulatory health care services is challenging. Continuity of care implies the progression of a predetermined plan for health care services without disruption of the plan. However, the ambulatory care client, unlike the hospitalized patient, is not as easily controlled, monitored, or guided through health care processes.
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Question: How long do we need to keep quality improvement (QI) and peer review documents before tossing them out? Im thinking of department or team QI reports, minutes from QI meetings, peer review worksheets with no adverse findings, and similar documents.
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Before long, the public will gain access to information on the quality of health care that previously was available only to those on the inside. The federal government will begin publishing data this summer.
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If overall performance in all acute-care U.S. hospitals were the same as the nations top hospitals, close to 57,000 more patients could survive each year and nearly $9.5 billion in annual expenses could be saved, according to a new study.
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Six Sigma proved useful for the Department of Radiology at Californias Stanford University Medical Center, which recently announced that it has been able to substantially boost revenue and reduce outpatient wait time without adding new equipment.
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Time, or the lack of it, should not be an excuse not to teach, says Yvonne Brookes, RN, patient education liaison at Baptist Health Systems in Miami. Teaching is part of patient care.
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Aids that streamline teaching make the process simpler for staff who educate patients in preparation for discharge. Thats why the education department at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has created several tools to make teaching more efficient.
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Having consumers review new patient education material has greatly improved the writing of health care professionals at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority in Richmond, British Columbia.
