Search results for "Quality of care"
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/adding-up-adverse-events.htm
7 Jun 2023
The October issue is online
New iPhone app available for Annals of Internal Medicine
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/06/5.htm
6 Oct 2010
Perfecting post-acute care
Hospitalists take bigger role in postdischarge decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/post-acute-care.htm
15 Apr 2016
In the News
High ICU utilization and costs, discharge checklist and risk assessment, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/11/in-the-news.htm
15 Nov 2016
Applications now being accepted for bundled payment initiative
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is currently soliciting applications for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/31/6.htm
31 Aug 2011
Measuring the readmission measures
Penalties positive step but should evolve into focus on value-based care, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/readmission-measures.htm
15 Dec 2015
The role of telehospitalists in COVID-19 response
Hospitalists caring remotely for New York patients explain their role.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/the-role-of-telehospitalists-in-covid-19-response.htm
15 May 2020
Women were less likely to receive thrombolysis and had longer door-to-needle time, study finds
Overall, 77.8% of women in the studied stroke registry, which included hospitals in Florida and Puerto Rico, received what the researchers defined as defect-free care, compared with 78.5% of men.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/31/1.htm
31 Aug 2016
Hospitals often overestimate performance of timely tPA delivery for stroke, study finds
Hospitals that delivered less tPA and did it more slowly were more likely to overestimate their performance on the 1-hour door-to-needle measure, according to a Get With the Guidelines study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/07/29/3.htm
29 Jul 2015
When hospitalists stay longer, patients leave sooner
A study indicates that fragmentation of care negatively affects length of stay. The lead author talks about his findings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/qa.htm
15 Jan 2011