Search results for "Hospital quality"
Validity of hospital rankings for MI, readmissions
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/in-the-news.htm
15 Jan 2018
Medicare readmission penalties don't reflect hospitals' overall readmission rates
Readmission rates for Medicare patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia differed from those for non-Medicare patients with those conditions and Medicare patients with other conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/4.htm
28 Mar 2018
Correcting medicine's use of race
Hospitalists are pushing for changes in eGFR and other algorithms.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/free/correcting-medicines-use-of-race.htm
15 Jan 2021
Readmission risk differs when same Medicare patients admitted to different hospitals
The results may reassure the public, policymakers, and clinicians that the signal of quality from the hospital-wide readmission measure is valid and can be used as a means to benchmark performance, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/20/4.htm
20 Sep 2017
High-value care, tele-ICUs, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/in-the-news.htm
15 Feb 2021
Adopting P4P early vs. late didn't affect hospitals' mortality rates
The observational study used Medicare claims and looked at clinical process scores and 30-day mortality in patients cared for at hospitals that voluntarily participated in pay-for-performance programs or those that later participated in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/2.htm
10 Jan 2018
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020
Readmission appears common after revascularization for peripheral arterial disease
At 30 days, the rate of nonelective readmissions was 17.6%, and patients were most commonly readmitted for procedural complications, sepsis, diabetes-related complications, and gangrene.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/06/4.htm
6 Dec 2017
CMS quality demo pays dividends for hospitals, but not always financially
Results from the first three years of the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) suggest that while bonuses were something to shoot for, they weren't the primary motivators for most participants. Instead, some hospitals viewed their participation as an opportunity to implement a tracking system, identify areas for improvement and see how they stacked up against other hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cover-story.htm
15 Sep 2007
Top Docs
Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/coverstory.htm
15 Nov 2013