Search results for "Quality measures"
July 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/
March 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/
Tips to creating a successful hospitalist program
New hospitalist programs are being developed rapidly; 2,000 programs in the 10 years since the concept was born.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/program.htm
15 Mar 2007
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
Hospitalist issues take hold at Board of Governors meeting
From boosting recruitment to managing infections, hospitalist issues were well represented during the Board of Governors' April business meeting at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/gov-meeting.htm
15 Jun 2007
Predicting the future at Hospital Medicine 2007
Robert M. Wachter, FACP, describes hospital medicine in 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/hosp-med.htm
15 Jul 2007
Medicare takes aim at hospital-acquired conditions
Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
In the News
OIG approves medical center's payment plan for ED coverage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/itn.htm
15 Dec 2007
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates: The wrong quality measure
Legislators, payers and quality-of-care advocates across the nation are considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates as a way to benchmark quality of care and penalize poor performers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/vap-qm.htm
15 Dec 2007
In the News
Hospitals meeting quality reporting goals, CMS says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2008