Hospital Peer Review – September 1, 2014
September 1, 2014
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Using Always Events to drive quality improvement
Serious reportable events the words can send a shiver up the spine of a quality professional, and any healthcare professionals who are present when such events occur. -
Partner With Me aids dementia inpatients
People who have cognitive problems often face difficulties when they are hospitalized. They are in different surroundings, with different schedules, different caregivers. Symptoms of cognitive problems can become more pronounced, agitation worse. They may become violent where before they were not. -
Program eases family burden in tough time
Patient- and family-centered care is at the heart of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says Deborah Maurer, RN, MBA, administrator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Transplant Services. -
ACS NSQIP conference outlines quality gains
At the American College of Surgeons annual quality conference in New York in July, surgeons outlined some of the gains that data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database has helped them achieve. -
Judging handoffs: Video study validates tool
A short study in the July issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine1 may change handoffs forever. For the first time, a tool created to judge the quality of how one physician passes the baton to another has been validated as effective. -
Joint replacement registry bears early fruit
There has long been a hole in the data collected on joint replacements: Patient-reported outcomes over an extended period of time were missing. -
Videos help providers check injection practices
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to investigate outbreaks as a result of unsafe injection practices