Hospital Peer Review – April 1, 2015
April 1, 2015
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CMS quality measures report finds improvement
The annual National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Measures Report shows a largely positive picture of the healthcare industry and its uptake of quality measures. It’s not surprising: Every report that has come out has shown good, sometimes great results for various metrics. Some have more direct impact on patients than others.
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Addressing the problem of diagnostic errors
At the beginning of March, Mark Graber MD, got a call from The Joint Commission informing him that he was one of the winners of the John M. Eisenberg awards for patient safety and quality. This individual achievement was given to Graber because of his extensive work in the field of recognizing, measuring, and finding ways to minimize diagnostic errors in healthcare. It is a topic that hasn’t gotten a lot of press up until now, but which Graber told Hospital Peer Review.
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Quick test highlights frail patients
What if there was a test you could do on patients in under a minute that would tell you which of them were most likely to have post-surgical complications?
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Over time, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program pays off, study suggests
It’s the kind of study with relatively expected results: A program that takes data and uses it to improve performance shows that participating organizations, over time, do better than their counterparts who don’t participate.
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Grading hospitals like restaurants
Does the way restaurants are inspected for cleanliness in New York City have anything to teach the people who rate hospitals?
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CMS now publicly reporting hospital flu vaccination rates
Public reporting is raising the stakes for flu vaccination. For the first time, potential patients can compare health care worker influenza immunization rates as part of the online hospital quality data provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
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CCI launches new care integration center
The Center for Care Innovation in San Francisco has launched a new Web-based resource dedicated to care integration. -
NQF, TJC announce quality winners
The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum announced the three winners of the 2014 John M. Eisenberg award for patient safety and quality.
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Report on hospital discharge planning tools
Hospital discharge planning tools should incorporate the judgment of clinicians and be administratively feasible, according to findings in a new report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA). -
Survey of impact from first year of ACA enrollment
The number of Americans reporting they did not receive needed healthcare because of its cost dropped for the first time since 2003, from 80 million in 2012 to 66 million, according to the just-released 2014 Biennial Health Insurance Survey from The Commonwealth Fund in New York City.