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Quick test highlights frail patients
What if there was a test you could do on patients in under a minute that would tell you which of them were most likely to have post-surgical complications?
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Study relates slowing cost boost to quality site
While there is debate about whether publicly reporting quality data has an impact on how the public purchases healthcare or even on patient outcomes — despite showing improving metrics — there is now evidence that it is having an impact on the cost of at least two procedures.
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Breaking bad habits, forming good ones
It is been a dozen years since Rekha Murthy, MD, FRCP(C), FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, medical director for the epidemiology department at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, really started working hard to make good hand hygiene a habit for everyone at the hospital. In the intervening years, the hospital has gone from having hand-washing rates in the 70s to consistently over 95%.
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Why are your surgical patients coming back?
A study out in the February 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that patients who are readmitted to the hospital after surgery are almost always coming back due to post-discharge complications rather than something that happened during their care in the hospital.
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10 tech issues to consider, according to ECRI
When the Ebola outbreak hit the news last summer, the experts at ECRI Institute, a Pennsylvania-based patient safety organization and recently re-designated Evidence Based Practice Center, were already thinking about how to protect patients from infection.
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It is time to start walking the talk of transparency, experts say
The first reports of hospitals talking to patients about mistakes brought gasps and headshakes through the healthcare world.
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Further Reading on Diagnostic Errors
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Just how wrong are you?
No one would argue that physicians and other providers always get it right. But there can be a variety of reasons for getting a patient diagnosis wrong.
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Education, follow-up reduce readmissions
A pilot project providing coaching and follow up for heart failure (HF) patients who are readmitted frequently resulted in a 50% drop in the readmission rate at Indiana University (IU) Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, IN. -
Communicating with patients encouraged
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has launched an initiative with the Ad Council to encourage clinicians and patients to engage in effective two-way communication to ensure safer care and better health outcomes.