Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – January 1, 2005
January 1, 2005
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Unique patient safety authority enables sharing of lessons learned
In the past two years, three Pennsylvania hospitals have won the coveted John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, given by the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. -
Tool forms foundation of approach to pediatric PI
A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor has shown shorter, less costly, and less frequent hospital stays and, in addition, has prevented repeat hospital visits for kids with asthma. -
Collaborative effort sees improvement in LOS
Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, WA, has used a combination of collaboration with an outside consultant and a diverse in-house team to achieve dramatic reductions in lengths of stay (LOS) and readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. -
Survey finds hospitals lagging behind on safety
The results are mixed in the first-of-its-kind survey of hospital safety practices conducted by The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, DC-based organization founded to promote improvement in health care safety. -
Tailored anesthesia aids safety post-surgery
Tailored doses of anesthesia can improve the safety and quality of patient care dramatically during and immediately after surgery, and may even reduce postoperative mortality rates in the longer term, report physicians from the Medical College of Georgia and MCG Health System in Augusta. -
News Briefs
Experts participating in a recent panel discussion of progress in patient safety since the Institute of Medicines (IOM) landmark 1999 report on medical errors, To Err is Human, said significant strides have been made in the five years since the report but that much more needs to be done to make health care safer.