Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – July 1, 2006
July 1, 2006
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Rapid response teams can help reduce mortality, 'code' rates
Rapid response teams, one of the six initiatives in the Boston, MA-based Institute for Healthcare Management's (IHI) "100,000 Lives" campaign, have proven to be a valuable tool for quality managers looking for new strategies to get mortality rates under control. -
System shows diversity in rapid response teams
The implementation of rapid response teams in seven different facilities in the Seton Healthcare Network in Austin, TX, is a virtual "living laboratory" of the many different ways hospitals can create and implement rapid response teams and they all seem to be working, says Alice Davis, RN, BSN, senior project coordinator, medical staff services. -
Recent study lauds automated surveillance
In a recent study conducted by researchers at Duke University, in Durham, NC, the use of an automated surveillance system for identifying adverse drug events (ADEs) proved far superior to voluntary reporting. -
Wrong-site surgeries seen as rare, preventable
Wrong-site surgery is extremely rare and major injury from it even rarer, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in the April 2006 issue of Archives of Surgery. -
Louisiana hospitals post price, quality data online
The general public in Louisiana now can access price and quality information for all the hospitals in the state at Louisiana Hospital Inform (www.lahealthinform.org), a web site launched by the Louisiana Hospital Association (LHA). -
Hospitals falling short on NQF's 30 'safe practices'
A first-of-its-kind study of a state's hospitals and their progress in implementing the National Quality Forum's "30 Safe Practices" has yielded some interesting results and, according to the authors, opened up some new benchmarking opportunities. -
AHA survey highlights ED overcrowding issues
Half of the nation's emergency departments (EDs) are at or over capacity, and a majority of hospitals have reported time on ambulance diversion, according to the American Hospital Association's 2006 Survey of Hospital Leaders. -
AHRQ study looks at admissions from ED
Fifty-five percent of admissions to the nation's community hospitals for conditions other than pregnancy, childbirth, and neonatal care begin in the hospital emergency department, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports.