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Based on a survey of research participants, the office of research compliance and quality improvement at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has come up with these four key areas to demonstrate informed consent.
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When Vanderbilt University Medical Center set about creating its BioVU biobank, it went in a different direction than most institutions.
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Young black men are disproportionately more likely than other groups to be victims of violent crime. But when researchers set out to study this group, they encounter difficulty in recruiting and retaining subjects.
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Surgical blades, a surgical camera, and laparoscopes disappear over two years from a hospital. The culprit? A nurse who admitted to stealing more than $300,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies from the hospital and reselling them over the Internet.
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Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
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I go through 400-500 patient satisfaction surveys per month. Like you, I am relatively busy just getting through life, but these are 400 to 500 patients and their family taking time out of their lives to tell me how we are doing as a business. Regardless of what you might think, health care in 2010 is a business!
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[Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series in avoiding liability in contracting. In last month's issue we told you about how you can end up contracting with the wrong company and what your liability can be. In this issue, we give you specific steps to take to investigate vendors, and we offer a list of items to watch for in the contract. We also discuss accreditation requirements.]
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial payers move to base reimbursement on quality and consumers become more savvy about their choices of health care providers, complete and accurate documentation will become even more important.
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As they wait to learn the next steps in health care reform, case managers should start thinking about what they need to do to get ready for the future, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, vice president, clinical performance improvement, Medical City Dallas Hospital.
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By implementing a series of patient flow initiatives over a 10-month period, UC Health University Hospital, a 693-bed academic medical center in Cincinnati, was able to decrease the average patient length of stay by 5.34 hours, giving the hospital the ability to serve 1,300 more patients each year.
