Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – December 1, 2010
December 1, 2010
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Iowa collaborative achieves improvement across the board
Collaboratives have sprung up all over the country, and many boast impressive results. However, few can lay claim to as many accomplishments in a relatively short period of time as the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC). -
Readmission rates for HF reduced by 30%
DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit has been recognized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for reducing its heart failure readmission rate by 30% this past year. -
Where do EDs remain challenged?
Every summer The Joint Commission issues a list of those standards hospitals find most difficult to comply with. -
Involve clinicians in egress plans
There are any number of reasons why an ED and its hospital would have difficulty complying with The Joint Commission standard regarding egress, says Diana S. Contino, RN, MBA, FAEN, senior manager of health care with Deloitte Consulting in Los Angeles. -
Medication reconciliation: Another change planned
As The Grateful Dead might say if asked to describe the various iterations of the National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for medication reconciliation, "what a long, strange trip it's been." -
Adopt a team approach for med reconciliation
What should ED managers be doing while they wait for The Joint Commission to publish a new standard for medication reconciliation? -
Cell phone pix: A new diagnostic tool
Initial data on the use of cell phone photos of injuries, taken by the patients themselves in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, offers the promise that they might have the potential to speed treatment without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy. -
Actual legal risks if you did it but didn't document
Despite the adage, "If it wasn't documented, it wasn't done," not everything that ED nurses and physicians do is actually documented.