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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will stop paying the costs of eight conditions resulting from preventable mistakes.
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in about 3.1% of all hospital stays, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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The Joint Commission's medical staff standards stress the importance of viewing peer review as educational but this can be difficult to do when review outcomes are used only for credentialing and privileging purposes.
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The "yes-means-no" phenomenon was one of several challenges encountered by the team conducting a community case management pilot project for diabetes patients in Nogales, AZ, says Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, diabetes care center manager for the Tucson-based Carondelet Health Network.
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With studies showing that 10% of patients are using 90% of the nation's health care resources, traditional case management must move to a disease management model.
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For its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals, The Joint Commission has prescribed a one-year phase-in period with defined milestones for compliance at three, six, and nine months.
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A health management plan for members with chronic conditions has generated a 1.7-to-1 return on investment and glowing responses to member satisfaction surveys for Health Alliance Plan (HAP).
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Although there are signs of improvement in some conditions, differences in the quality of health care provided to men and women continue to persist, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQ).
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Just three new National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) were added by The Joint Commission this year, but the requirements both new and old pose some challenges for organizations and quality professionals.
