Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – May 1, 2003
May 1, 2003
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Integrate benchmarking with your PI efforts for long-term success
Like many performance improvement activities, benchmarking has its own nomenclature, its own tools and, in a way, even its own culture. But focusing on those differences, rather than on making benchmarking an integral part of your ongoing performance improvement program, can doom your efforts to early failure. -
Closed-circuit TV wins fans in children’s hospital
An innovative closed-circuit TV (CCTV) network at a childrens hospital in Atlanta has made a significant contribution to patient and family satisfaction while boosting the morale and self-esteem of bedridden children. -
Alliance will evaluate clinical excellence
In what the principals claim is a health care industry first, HealthGrades Inc. and J.D. Power and Associates have formed a strategic alliance to recognize hospitals for excellence in both service and clinical outcomes. -
Leapfrog finalizing new incentive plans
The Leapfrog Group, the Washington, DC-based organization that seeks to foster improved patient safety, soon will complete a tool to help realign incentives for health care facilities that invest in meeting Leapfrog recommendations. -
Simple ‘PUSH’ spells improved senior health
One out of three seniors who breaks a hip this year will die as a result of complications from the fracture, but simple fitness measures can greatly reduce a seniors risk of falling, say University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA) researchers. -
News Briefs
AHA toolkit fosters evidence-based medicine; CDC stresses smallpox vaccination site care; St. Louis hospitals sign preparedness agreement; HHS seeks safer smallpox vaccines