Hospital Peer Review – July 1, 2008
July 1, 2008
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Do you lack resources for data collection? Use these strategies
With ever-growing data collection requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, health plans, and state hospital associations, how can quality professionals keep up without adding an army of data abstractors? -
Collect these data to assess nursing quality
The quality of nursing care will have a much bigger impact on reimbursement than ever before, as a result of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "no pay" conditions, according to a recent analysis. -
Study is first to show RRTs decrease pediatric deaths
Your hospital is likely in the process of implementing a rapid response team (RRT), if one is not already in place but the team is probably focused on adult care. Now a small but growing number of hospitals are implementing pediatric RRTs to improve the care of children. -
MRI safety is the focus of new Sentinel Event Alert
A total of five MRI-related cases have been reported to The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event database, resulting in four deaths, including one case caused by a projectile and three cardiac events. The other case involved a misread MRI scan that resulted in delayed treatment. -
Approach for treating methadone patients created
The professionals in the addiction treatment services team at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore have created an approach for treating methadone patients, called the motivated stepped care (MSC) model, which has decreased positive urine tests from 74% to 54% and increased group counseling attendance from 14% to 65%.