Hardeep Singh; Eric J. Thomas; Laura A. Petersen; David M. Studdert
Arch Intern Med 2007 167: 2030-2036
ABSTRACT FULL TEXT PDF
Editorial
Translational Patient Care: A New Model for Inpatient Care in the 21st Century
Robert A. Phillips; Julia D. Andrieni
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:2025-2026.
EXTRACT FULL TEXT PDF
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Medical Errors Involving Trainees: A Study of Closed Malpractice Claims From 5 Insurers
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Combining ratings from multiple physician reviewers helped to overcome the uncertainty associated with adverse event classification
Alan J. Forster , Keith O'Rourke , Kaveh G. Shojania , Carl van Walraven
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology- 2007 September Vol. 60, Issue 9, Pages 892-901
Abstract Full Text Full-Text PDF (394 KB)
No Safety, No Quality: Synthesis of Research on Hospital and Patient Safety (1996-2007).
Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 22(4):299-306, October/December 2007.
Tzeng, Huey-Ming PhD, RN; Yin, Chang-Yi MA
Abstract HTML PDF (82 K)
Friday, October 26, 2007
Safer care for the acutely ill patient: learning from serious incidents
This publication from the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) focuses on 107 patients whose deaths in acute hospitals in one year were reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and suggests that hospital staff and their organisations can make a real difference through identifying problems and acting early.
pdf 3MB- high resolution
pdf 640KB - low resolution
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Guilty, Afraid, and Alone -- Struggling with Medical Error
Delbanco, Tom, Bell, Sigall K.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 1682-1683
Extract FREE Full Text PDF
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Is hospital patient care becoming safer? A conversation with Lucian Leape.
Buerhaus PI.
Health Affairs. 2007;26:w687-w696.
Abstract Full Text Reprint (PDF)
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Assessment of the National Patient Safety Initiative
Context and Baseline Evaluation Report I.
Farley DO, Morton SC, Damberg CL, et al.
Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation; 2005. ISBN: 0833037870.
contents Full Document Summary Only
Moving from research to practice evaluation report II (2003–2004).
Farley DO, Morton SC, Damberg CL, et al.
Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation; 2007. ISBN: 9780833041487.
contents Full Document Summary Only
Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III (2004-2005)
Farley DO, Morton SC, Damberg CL, et al.
Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation; 2007. ISBN: 9780833042170.
contents Full Document Summary Only
Monday, October 22, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Nonpayment for Performance? Medicare's New Reimbursement Rule
Rosenthal, Meredith B.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 1573-1575
Extract FREE Full Text PDF Audio Interview
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Is the availability of hospital IT applications associated with a hospital's risk adjusted incidence rate for patient safety indicators
Results from 66 Georgia Hospitals
Culler SD, Hawley JN, Naylor V, Rask KJ.
J Med Syst. 2007;31:319-327.
abstract PDF (186 kb) HTML
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
CMS announces payment reforms for inpatient hospital services in 2008
Press Release
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will reform the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).
The IPPS payment reforms would restructure the inpatient diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) to account more fully for the severity of each patient’s condition.
In addition, the rule includes important provisions to ensure that Medicare no longer pays for the additional costs of certain preventable conditions (including certain infections) acquired in the hospital.
To implement this policy, hospitals will be required to report secondary diagnoses present during admission, making it possible to detect what conditions were acquired during hospital stays.
The rule also expands the list of publicly reported quality measures.
IPPS regulation (pdf)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will reform the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).
The IPPS payment reforms would restructure the inpatient diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) to account more fully for the severity of each patient’s condition.
In addition, the rule includes important provisions to ensure that Medicare no longer pays for the additional costs of certain preventable conditions (including certain infections) acquired in the hospital.
To implement this policy, hospitals will be required to report secondary diagnoses present during admission, making it possible to detect what conditions were acquired during hospital stays.
The rule also expands the list of publicly reported quality measures.
IPPS regulation (pdf)
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Comparison of hospital episode statistics and central cardiac audit database in public reporting of congenital heart surgery mortality
Stephen Westaby, Nicholas Archer, Nicola Manning, Satish Adwani, Catherine Grebenik, Oliver Ormerod, Ravi Pillai, and Neil Wilson
BMJ 2007 335: 759.
[Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]
Editorial
Data sources and performance measurement
Stephen Singleton
BMJ 2007;335:730
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]
Friday, October 12, 2007
The Quality of Ambulatory Care Delivered to Children in the United States
Mangione-Smith, Rita, DeCristofaro, Alison H., Setodji, Claude M., Keesey, Joan, Klein, David J., Adams, John L., Schuster, Mark A., McGlynn, Elizabeth A.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 1515-1523
Abstract FREE Full Text PDF Supplementary Material
Editorial
The Quality of Children's Health Care Matters -- Time to Pay Attention
Perrin, James M., Homer, Charles J.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 1549-1551
Extract FREE Full Text PDF
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Managing and Evaluating Rapid-Cycle Process Improvements as Vehicles for Hospital System Redesign.
AHRQ Publication No. 07-0074-EF, September 2007.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
www.ahrq.gov/qual/rapidcycle/
Monday, October 08, 2007
The Comparative Effectiveness and Safety Emerging Methods Symposium
Medical Care - October 2007, Volume 45, Issue 10, Suppl 2
Tables of contents
From the Editorial: "AHRQ sponsored a 2-day symposium of researchers who presented new approaches to designing studies, identifying sources of data for research, and developing methodologies for studying health outcomes, safety, effectiveness, and comparative effectiveness. The proceedings of the symposium have been independently peer-reviewed and compiled to form this Medical Care supplement.
This supplement is meant to serve as a resource to scientists investigating the safety and effectiveness of treatments, particularly the effects of therapies whose efficacy has been previously established through randomized controlled trials. "
Smith, Scott R. MSPH, PhD
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Measuring for Medicare: the physician quality reporting initiative.
Bagley B.
Fam Pract Manag. 2007 Jun;14(6):37-40.
free full text
Friday, October 05, 2007
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Application of statistical process control in healthcare improvement:systematic review
Johan Thor, Jonas Lundberg, Jakob Ask, Jesper Olsson, Cheryl Carli, Karin Pukk Harenstam, and Mats Brommels
Qual Saf Health Care 2007;16 387-399
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Primary healthcare teams' views on using mortality data to review clinical policies
Sullivan, Emma, Baker, Richard, Jones, David, Blackledge, Hanna, Rashid, Aly, Farooqi, Azhar, Allen, Justin
Qual Saf Health Care 2007 16: 359-362
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Cost and Quality: Evidence From Ontario Long Term Care Hospitals.
Walter P. Wodchis, Gary F. Teare, Geoff M. Anderson
Medical Care. 45(10):981-988, October 2007.
Abstract HTML PDF (293 K)
Patient Samples for Measuring Primary Care Physician Performance: Who Should Be Included?
Hector P. Rodriguez, Ted von Glahn, Hong Chang, William H. Rogers, Dana Gelb Safran
Medical Care. 45(10):989-996, October 2007.
Abstract HTML PDF (569 K)
Monday, October 01, 2007
The Impact of Social Work Environment, Teamwork Characteristics, Burnout, and Personal Factors Upon Intent to Leave Among European Nurses.
Madeleine Estryn-Béhar, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Halszka OgiDska, Donatella Camerino, Olivier Le Nézet, Paul Maurice Conway, Clementine Fry, Hans-Martin Hasselhorn
Medical Care. 45(10):939-950, October 2007.
Abstract HTML PDF (416 K)
The Impact of Safety Organizing, Trusted Leadership, and Care Pathways on Reported Medication Errors in Hospital Nursing Units.
Vogus, Timothy J., Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.
Medical Care. 45(10):997-1002, October 2007.
Abstract HTML PDF (293 K)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
