Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement 2005-01-01

Unique patient safety authority enables sharing of lessons learned

In the past two years, three Pennsylvania hospitals have won the coveted John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, given by the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. Read More

Tool forms foundation of approach to pediatric PI

A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor has shown shorter, less costly, and less frequent hospital stays and, in addition, has prevented repeat hospital visits for kids with asthma. Read More

Collaborative effort sees improvement in LOS

Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, WA, has used a combination of collaboration with an outside consultant and a diverse in-house team to achieve dramatic reductions in lengths of stay (LOS) and readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. Read More

Survey finds hospitals lagging behind on safety

The results are mixed in the first-of-its-kind survey of hospital safety practices conducted by The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, DC-based organization founded to promote improvement in health care safety. Read More

Tailored anesthesia aids safety post-surgery

Tailored doses of anesthesia can improve the safety and quality of patient care dramatically during and immediately after surgery, and may even reduce postoperative mortality rates in the longer term, report physicians from the Medical College of Georgia and MCG Health System in Augusta. Read More

News Briefs

Experts participating in a recent panel discussion of progress in patient safety since the Institute of Medicines (IOM) landmark 1999 report on medical errors, To Err is Human, said significant strides have been made in the five years since the report but that much more needs to be done to make health care safer. Read More

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