Search results for "Quality of care"
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about treating COPD, avoiding gadolinium MRIs, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/journal-watch.htm
15 Apr 2007
Hospital medicine update
The reimbursement spotlight is shifting to pay-for-performance, and this year's moderators for the update in hospital medicine at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego discussed its impact on physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/med-update.htm
15 Jun 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about methylprednisolone, fenoldopam, stroke patients, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/journal-watch.htm
15 Jul 2007
Sending patients home with a little extra care
Campaign advances care for home health patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/home-health.htm
15 Aug 2007
Dialogue: Communication at discharge
Lee W. Roof, ACP Member, a primary care internist, and Dawn Brezina, ACP Member, a hospitalist, offer their perspectives on how hospitalists and PCPs can improve communication during handoffs at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/improve-comm.htm
15 Oct 2007
In the News
Reports to the FDA of drug-related injury and death nearly tripled in the past eight years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 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
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
Beyond the bundle: Innovative ways to prevent VAP in the intensive care unit
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.htm
15 Dec 2007
A new Rx for crowded hospitals: Math
Operations management expert brings queuing theory to health care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/math.htm
15 Dec 2007