Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – February 1, 2006
February 1, 2006
View Issues
-
Do demonstration project’s numbers really validate P4P?
Its hard to argue that the data from the first year of the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID), recently validated by CMS and reported publicly, were anything but impressive. -
Study: Implementation of CPOE can raise mortality
Like many health care institutions across the country, Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh responded to the 1999 IOM report and recommendations by organizations such as the Leapfrog Group with the purchase of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system, anticipating that it would improve patient safety and outcomes. -
Main barriers to effective handoffs identified
With the implementation of a standardized approach to handoff communications being incorporated into the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals for 2006, the issue has taken on increasing importance for quality managers. -
Unannounced surveys don’t require QI changes
According to the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), some random surveys will continue to be performed, even though, as of January 2006, all accreditation surveys are unannounced. -
Study: Fewer heart deaths when QI efforts are made
Heart failure patients are less likely to die after they go home from the hospital if the hospital has participated in an organized quality improvement program, compared with patients treated at hospitals where such efforts arent undertaken, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds. -
Tools, tactics of the MI heart failure QI project
Here is a closer look at the major tools and tactics used in the successful heart failure initiative conducted in and around Flint, MI, and reported on by University of Michigan Health System Researchers: -
News Briefs
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is developing a how-to reference guide to help health care organizations in creating patient registries to track the outcomes of medical treatments, including drugs.