Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – May 1, 2006
May 1, 2006
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ICU collaborative achieves major reductions in hospital infections
Hospitals participating in the Maryland Patient Safety Centers (MPSC) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Safety Culture Collaborative, a statewide effort to improve safety in intensive care units, are showing major improvements in the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) and catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSIs). -
NQF seeks measures for reporting of infections
The Washington, DC-based National Quality Forum (NQF) has undertaken a project to seek consensus on a set of national performance measures for public reporting of health care-associated infections. -
CPOE study shows drop in hospital errors
In a study published in the February 15 issue of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy,1 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) researchers, using a national voluntary medication error-reporting database, found that facilities with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) systems in place had fewer hospital-based errors than facilities without a CPOE system. -
Facility works to ensure safety in bariatric program
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton), a recipient of the 2004 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, has just begun offering a new bariatric (weight loss) program; but long before it took its first case, it has been making preparations to ensure the highest possible quality of care. -
AHA establishes quality center for hospitals
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has created a performance improvement organization to serve as a resource specifically targeting process improvement in the hospital setting. -
Patients deserve info on quality-of-care cases
Medicare recipients who have a complaint about their quality of care have a means of reporting their complaints but its unlikely they will find out the details of investigations of their complaints, according to the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), which has launched an effort to enact major reforms in the complaints system. -
News Briefs
Does consolidation impact quality?; AHRQ launches web tool for states