Search results for "Hospital quality"
In the News
Hospitals meeting quality reporting goals, CMS says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2008
In-hospital death rates paint different quality picture than 30-day death rates
Using in-hospital mortality rates to gauge hospital performance favors hospitals with shorter lengths of stay and provides a different picture than 30-day mortality rates, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/01/11/2.htm
11 Jan 2012
Rating the rankings: How ‘top hospital’ lists define quality
It's the mid-1980s. You're an accountant, not a doctor, and you've just been told that your mother has a rare type of cancer. You respect and trust her physician-but this is your mother, and she needs serious medicine. How do you find the very best possible treatment?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/top-hosp.htm
15 Apr 2007
CMS gives hospitals star ratings for overall care, expands bundled payments
The new Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating summarizes data from existing publicly reported quality measures into a single star rating for each hospital on the Hospital Compare website, while the proposed expansion of the bundled payment program includes new or changed bundles for cardiac care, hip surgery, and cardiac rehabilitation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/1.htm
3 Aug 2016
The new, improved M&M
Morbidity and mortality conferences are starting to be seen more as a potential opportunity to address patient safety issues and reduce preventable errors than as education- and blame-oriented.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/the-new-improved-m-and-m.htm
15 Jul 2018
Improve core measure compliance with electronic medical record tools
A hospitalist explains how his facility uses its EHR to meet CMS core measures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/perspectives.htm
15 Nov 2012
Medicare proposes changes to conditions of participation
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed major changes to existing regulations last week, with the release of two sets of proposed rules and one finalized rule that the agency predicts will save the health care system nearly $1.1 billion per year by removing unnecessary regulations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/26/1.htm
26 Oct 2011
New score for predicting inpatient mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Factors independently associated with inpatient mortality after acute myocardial infarction included age, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, presentation after cardiac arrest, presentation in cardiogenic shock, presentation in heart failure, presentation with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, creatinine clearance, and troponin ratio.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/4.htm
3 Aug 2016
In the News
Alcohol detox protocol, in-hospital STEMI and outcomes, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/05/itn.htm
15 May 2014
Recent Research
Dabigatran outcomes, PPIs and postoperative pneumonia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/01/rr.htm
15 Jan 2014