Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – October 1, 2009
October 1, 2009
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Benchmarking children's hospitals improves asthma home management
Children's hospitals participating in a benchmarking initiative have achieved significant improvement in compliance with home care requirements set forth by The Joint Commission. -
Patient satisfaction upon discharge improved
When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to new research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. -
Multidisciplinary meetings lower LOS, excess days
Within 45 days after daily multidisciplinary patient care conferences were instituted at North Fulton Regional Hospital, the hospital's average length of stay dropped by more than a day and excess days decreased by more than 300 days within the first quarter of implementation. -
For easy-to-read handouts, take layout into account
The health community has become increasingly aware of the need for health information written at a level most patients can understand. -
Noncompliance may mean patients misunderstand
If your patients aren't following their treatment plan, it may not be that they are non-adherent. It could be that they simply do not understand what they are expected to do. -
Joint Commission deadline on MDRO goal is Jan. 1
The Joint Commission's 2009 patient safety goal regarding multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) includes the following key provisions and deadlines: