Hospital Peer Review – October 1, 2007
October 1, 2007
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Prepare now for new Medicare ruling: No more payment for preventable errors
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will stop paying the costs of eight conditions resulting from preventable mistakes. -
Medical staff: What should trigger a focused review?
An operation done on the wrong body part is an obvious red flag calling for the need to closely examine a practitioner's competence. But what about a verbal complaint from a nurse who works closely with that physician? Or what if length of stay is increasing for that physician, but only slightly? -
Most adverse drug events unreported: Take these steps
Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in about 3.1% of all hospital stays, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). -
The Quality-Cost Connection: The real deal on holding successful case reviews
The Joint Commission's medical staff standards stress the importance of viewing peer review as educational but this can be difficult to do when review outcomes are used only for credentialing and privileging purposes. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Project targets diabetes in Latino community
The "yes-means-no" phenomenon was one of several challenges encountered by the team conducting a community case management pilot project for diabetes patients in Nogales, AZ, says Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, diabetes care center manager for the Tucson-based Carondelet Health Network. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Consultant: CM must move to DM model
With studies showing that 10% of patients are using 90% of the nation's health care resources, traditional case management must move to a disease management model. -
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