Search results for "Performance measures"
Top Docs
The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/cover.htm
15 Nov 2008
The different ways hospitals pay
Incentive compensation aims to improve quality and productivity.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/money.htm
15 Oct 2010
Conversion to for-profit affects a hospital's bottom line, but not care
Hospitals that converted from nonprofit to for-profit between 2003 and 2010 improved their financial margins without any apparent effects on the care they provided, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/10/29/2.htm
29 Oct 2014
Update issued on VAP prevention strategies
An update was released last week on strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/23/3.htm
23 Jul 2014
Assess before anticoagulating
Three new evidence-based recommendations from ACP point out that VTE prophylaxis is not as simple as some might think.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/qa.htm
15 Nov 2011
Eliminating disparities in stroke outcomes
Recent studies have found that stroke patients admitted to the hospital at night and on the weekends are more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays. Why does mortality vary at different times of the day and week, and how can hospitals change their procedures to help minimize this difference?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/cover.htm
15 Jun 2008
ICD-10-CM specificity: The sky isn't falling
ICD-10-CM documentation requirements will not require much more from physicians than is already needed
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/ICD-10-CM-specificity.htm
15 Aug 2015
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
Recent Research
Nonprofit versus for-profit hospitals, corticosteroids in septic shock, pretreatment with P2Y12 inhibitors, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/rr.htm
15 Feb 2015
In the News
Delayed ICU transfer, updated quality and performance measures for afib, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/in-the-news.htm
15 Oct 2016