Search results for "Quality of care"
Models developed to predict MI patients' length of stay, need for postacute care
Patients who were older at the time of myocardial infarction (MI) or had heart failure, higher heart rate, shock, or lower hemoglobin level at admission were more likely to stay at least a week or be discharged to a postacute care facility.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/26/1.htm
26 Sep 2018
MD and DO hospitalists provide care of similar cost and quality
A retrospective study of hospitalized Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries found no differences in 30-day mortality, readmissions, length of stay, or spending between those cared for by physicians with an allopathic versus an osteopathic degree.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/md-and-do-hospitalists-provide-care-of-similar-cost-and-quality.htm
31 May 2023
IHI forum covers palliative care access, sepsis treatment, rapid response teams
Access to palliative care, sepsis mortality reduction and rapid response team effectiveness were a few of the quality of care issues addressed last week at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 22nd annual National Forum.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/12/15/3.htm
15 Dec 2010
Working overtime
Moonlighting has become an essential perk for hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/moonlighting.htm
15 Apr 2015
Hospital revisits, admissions appear common after observation stays in Medicare beneficiaries
From 2006 to 2011, an increase was seen in revisit rates after ED treatment-and-discharge stays, repeated observation stays, and any hospital revisit, the retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/06/28/4.htm
28 Jun 2017
Supervised walking may benefit hospitalized older adults, trial finds
Rates of discharge to a skilled nursing facility instead of home dropped from about 13% before implementation of the STRIDE (AssiSTed EaRly MobIlity for HospitalizeD VEterans) program to 8% afterward in a randomized trial at eight Veterans Affairs hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/supervised-walking-may-benefit-hospitalized-older-adults-trial-finds.htm
7 Jun 2023
Postprocedural respiratory failure
How to properly make and document the diagnosis of respiratory failure following surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/coding-postprocedural-respiratory-failure.htm
15 Jul 2017
Medicare reports on the 2015 Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier
The “x factor” affects payments.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/coding-VBPM.htm
15 May 2015
Dementia
Whereas many major neurocognitive disorders may occur in younger people, the term dementia is customarily applied only to older adults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/coding-corner-dementia.htm
15 Jul 2018
Giving physicians outcome data reduced costs, improved quality at 1 hospital
Pilot improvement projects targeted cost and quality for hip and knee replacement, hospitalist lab utilization, and sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/21/2.htm
21 Sep 2016