Search results for "Quality measurement"
AHA/ASA scientific statement looks at quality measurement for telestroke
The statement suggests quality measures covering telestroke processes, outcomes, tissue-type plasminogen activator use, patient and provider satisfaction, and technology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/11/16/4.htm
16 Nov 2016
Clarifying criteria for acute respiratory failure
The diagnosis of acute respiratory failure is one of those most commonly denied by payers, so understanding the current documentation criteria is crucial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/27/clarifying-criteria-for-acute-respiratory-failure.htm
27 Mar 2024
July 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/
Hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions associated with functional decline, other adverse outcomes in the elderly
A longitudinal analysis looked at total disability score, functional recovery, and incident nursing home admission within six months of hospitalization for an ambulatory care-sensitive condition, such as diabetes or pneumonia, in elderly community-living adults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/07/28/2.htm
28 Jul 2021
March 29, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/
Hospital performance on one stroke quality measure may predict performance on others
Hospitals that performed well on one of four indicators—carotid imaging, antithrombolytic therapy, treatment in a stroke unit, or discharge to inpatient rehabilitation—tended to also perform well on the other three, and the reverse was also true, with poor performance on one predicting poor performance on the others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/09/4.htm
9 Dec 2020
Hospital rankings change when Medicare Advantage patients included
When researchers included both Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in calculations of CMS performance measures, between 21.6% and 30.2% of hospitals in the top-performing group for readmissions and mortality fell to a lower-performing group.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/hospital-rankings-change-when-medicare-advantage-patients-included.htm
29 Mar 2023
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
Physician advisor as a career path
These physicians help ensure compliance with regulatory issues and advise on medical necessity and documentation needs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/coding-corner-physician-advisor-as-a-career-path.htm
15 Mar 2021
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/cover.htm
15 Jul 2008