Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – April 1, 2006
April 1, 2006
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‘Hospitals of excellence’ outshine others in mortality, complications
When it comes to quality improvement, it seems that the best keep getting better, based on the findings of the latest Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study from Golden, CO-based HealthGrades, Inc. This is the organizations fourth annual study, analyzing nearly 39 million hospitalizations over the years 2002, 2003, and 2004 at all 5,122 of the nations nonfederal hospitals. -
Experts: Time to prepare for next flu season
At this writing, the 2005/2006 flu season is not quite over and yet, say the experts, its not too early to start planning for next years season. -
New tool unveiled as patient safety option
A team of quality and safety researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD, has developed a tool to investigate defects in patient care called the Learning From Defects (LFD) tool. -
All MA hospitals agree to make staff plans public
In a move billed as a nationwide first, all hospitals in Massachusetts now will be voluntarily posting their staffing plans through a new web site www.patientsfirstma.org as well as through notices in hospitals. This will give consumers the number and type of caregivers assigned 24/7 throughout every hospital in the state. -
QI can help tackle post-bypass infections
A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine1 reveals a new opportunity for quality managers to have an impact in an area where disease/complications may be preventable and/or treatable: bypass surgery. -
Collaborative cuts ICU infection rate in half
A 50% decrease in central-line infections and an increase in compliance with evidence-based practices from 30% to 95%. These are the dramatic results achieved by 10 hospitals participating in the two-year Greater Cincinnati Patient Safety ICU [Intensive Care Unit] Collaborative.