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One of the most challenging issues for quality managers is demonstrating that best QI practices can actually improve outcomes. Demonstrating such success requires a good deal of time and resources. In light of this challenge, the results of a new study published in JAMA should be good news, indeed.
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If the reaction to the options paper released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on value-based purchasing does anything, it points out clearly just how difficult if not impossible it will be to create a plan that makes everyone happy. The good news is there is still a lot of talking and responding to be done before the final plan is in place.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a new phase of its Value-Driven Health Care Initiative, an undertaking with several components all designed to support QI through public reporting of cost and quality data.
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The Pennsylvania e-Health Initiative (PAeHI), a public-private coalition, has unveiled a set of health information technology recommendations designed to improve the quality of Pennsylvania's health care and reduce costs, while giving patients improved access to their own health care information.
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Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in elderly patients remains problematic. Recent data suggests imatinib with chemotherapy is both effective and well-tolerated in elderly patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL.
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Sweeping new changes have been made to the guidelines for prevention of endocarditis in patients undergoing dental procedures.
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In a prospective clinical trial of women with lymphedema following breast cancer treatment, two dietary interventions were compared to control diet in alleviating arm swelling.
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When Mike Hill, RN, the ED director at Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA, reported to work at about 7:30 a.m. on April 16, 2007, he noticed a large number of people in the trauma room. Although he didn't know it yet, "They were working the second victim of the first shooting" at Virginia Tech University.
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The availability of group and individual counseling for hospital staff following two shootings within eight months of each other in Blacksburg, VA, was invaluable, says Mike Hill, RN, the ED director at Montgomery Regional Hospital, which treated 17 victims of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University.
