Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – June 1, 2004
June 1, 2004
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Tracer methodology: How it can help you improve quality
Any time the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) adds a new requirement to the survey process, quality professionals are obligated to become conversant with it to ramp up for their next survey. But if thats all the new tools are used for, they may be missing significant opportunities for improvement, experts argue. Such is the case with tracer methodology. -
QI program generates physician involvement
Generating physician involvement in QI efforts has been an ongoing challenge for quality professionals, but an initiative to increase diabetes awareness among the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) 220 primary care physician practices, called UPMC Community Medicine Inc. (CMI), has produced impressive results. -
New tool adds structure, productivity to meetings
All Saints Healthcare, a multifacility system in Racine, WI, has adapted a pre-existing template for meeting structure to more closely mesh with its strategic goals, creating a more organized meeting process while at the same time reinforcing key mission and vision messages with staff personnel. -
Quality, teamwork to be key issues for internists
A task force of leading internal medicine physicians is recommending significant changes to their profession and the health care industry so they can better serve patients while stemming chaos in the current health care system. -
Staff education about environment starts day 1
Employees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), an academic facility in Lebanon, NH, that includes a 400-bed tertiary hospital, research and clinical space, work for an organization that places prime importance on sound environmental stewardship and they become aware of that fact their first day on the job. -
News Briefs
Michigan hospitals track bioterror; Ohio group issues surgical protocol; NFPA now allows hand-rub dispensers. -
ADA/NCQA issue new diabetes measures
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have adopted new guidelines for the Diabetes Physician Recognition Program, a voluntary program for individual physicians or physician groups that provide care for people with diabetes.