Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – March 1, 2003
March 1, 2003
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Health care organization shares the wealth with ‘benchmarking days’
Being a nationally recognized health care system certainly has its benefits, the most obvious being front-of-mind awareness and a favorable perception among potential patients. -
Benchmarking beneficial for fiscal management
When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind; but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it to be invaluable. -
It’s back to school for system leaders
Health care leaders in Ann Arbor, MI, are returning to school so they can learn how to better care for a highly complex patient: the multisite, multispecialty academic medical center known as the U-M (University of Michigan) Health System. -
Lower mortality, LOS seen with intensivists
Closed intensive care units (ICUs) those in which an intensivist is the patients primary attending physician or ICUs that require mandatory critical care consultation with an intensivist experience lower mortality rates and shorter lengths of stay (LOS), according to a study published in the Nov. 6, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Physician staffing patterns and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients. -
Ongoing studies cite clinical best practices
The Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC IQI) is seeking to provide quality improvement opportunities for health care professionals through a series of clinical performance studies, which began when the organization was established in 1999. -
News Briefs
Hospitals to share quality information; Hospitalists save money; Veterans Health Initiative announced.