Hospital Peer Review – April 1, 2012
April 1, 2012
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Are your people too afraid to report errors?
Perhaps the saddest thing about the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report, released in February by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is not that so many people believe the culture in their hospitals is an impediment to error reporting, but that so many people who work in the patient safety arena are not surprised at the high number of people responding that way. -
Letting it all hang out does not seem to matter
It has been seven years since Medicare started requiring hospitals to publicly report their performance for core measures related to heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. Ask the hospitals participating in Hospital Compare whether this has affected their quality improvement and patient safety efforts and the vast majority will answer in the affirmative. -
Improving emergency department wait times
If you have patients waiting for long periods of time in your emergency department, you better start thinking about ways to cut those times. -
Why do it if you can't measure it?
With all the talk about needing more outcomes measures rather than process measures, there are some well-loved projects that could get left out in the cold, simply because it is hard to prove they have a direct impact on improved outcomes. -
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