Articles Tagged With: standardization
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Better Care Coordination Needed for Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be challenging and frustrating for nursing staff — and sometimes dangerous and tragic for patients and their families. Health systems should pay more attention to how these transfers are handled and work to improve communication between sending and receiving hospitals.
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Tactics to Improve Utilization Management
The CMS waiver of Conditions of Participation for utilization management may end when the COVID-19 emergency ends. Hospitals that did not have to hold review meetings might have to return to those practices. -
Hospitals Cut Common Infection Cases by Half with Scalable Process for System Goals
Research suggests mergers may cause a quality decline. When hospitals in Massachusetts were facing a merger, leaders sought to address the quality issue head-on and achieved substantial improvements in some categories, including a reduction in Clostridioides difficile cases.
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Meet Unique Challenges of Pediatric Ethics Consults
Researchers find a need for standardization in both education and training for pediatric ethics consultants.
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Piedmont Healthcare’s QI Changes Also Affected Peer Review Process
The health system standardized its peer review process so that it is handled the same way in every facility. Previously, the process varied considerably from one facility to the next.