Do-not-resuscitate orders skew the accuracy of mortality rate as a care quality measurement for stroke patients, according to a study published in Stroke.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The following strategies appear in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brief on reducing overuse and misuse of healthcare to improve quality and value in care. The strategies are designed for use on the state level and come from a RWJF-funded…
Download this whitepaper from HFAP to learn about Stroke Ready Certification programs and their impact on rural communities.
A man was found dead in the ER waiting room at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y., and it was determined he died at some point during an eight-hour wait for care, according to a ABC 7 news report.
The preventable harm that occurs in our nation's hospitals each year is shameful. We as an industry have known this for years, and yet, the needle has barely moved when it comes to drastic industry-wide reductions in preventable harm. Certain…
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National healthcare network VHA has launched an integrated performance scorecard allowing hospitals to evaluate their clinical, financial and operational performance.
Improving patient care, along with morbidity and mortality outcomes is a challenge for acute stroke care in the rural sector. However, having partnerships through a hub and spoke model provides rural hospitals with access to resources, specialists, protocols and…
Discharging patients before noon, which is thought to reduce patient capacity bottlenecks, is both possible and sustainable, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
This weekend I had the pleasure to attend to the Patient Safety Movement's Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Patient Safety Movement is a grassroots movement that seeks to get to zero preventable deaths by medical errors by 2020.…
U.S. News & World Report Managing Editor Ben Harder announced yesterday that the methodology for next year’s closely watched Best Hospitals ratings will give more weight to patient safety indicators. Announcing the move at the Patient Safety Movement Patient Safety…