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AHRQ Says It Will Take 20 Years To Close Healthcare Quality Chasm
As one would expect from such a diverse group, comparisons were a common topic at the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease...
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Does Pay For Performance Improve Healthcare Quality?
The Jobbing Doctor, a primary care doctor in the UK, writes about the British version of what Americans call “Pay for Performance,” or “P4P.” He says something I’ve said many times before (like here,...
View ArticleThe “I Get It” Moment In Direct-Pay Primary Care
After seven years, my wife has finally stopped asking me for “The Power of DocTalker” story of the day. Now when I start with the details of the latest case report justifying the model, she stops me...
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): HMOs With Lipstick?
Thousands of articles have been written about forming ACOs. Millions of dollars have been spent by hospital systems to try to form an ACO. Healthcare policy consultants have discovered a new cash cow....
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Nurse Prompts Are Key To Successful Implementation Of ICU Safety Measures
Over the last few years, you may have heard a lot about the value of checklists in ICU medicine and their ability to reduce mortality, reduce cost and reduce length of stay. But a recent study took...
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Nurses With “Do Not Disturb” Signs: Government-Directed Health Care
It was supposed to be one of a series of “measures to improve safety, reliability, patient experience, staff satisfaction and efficiency of medicine management.” Instead, the wearing of red “tabards”...
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How Is The Quality Of Healthcare Determined?
How do you calibrate care so that it is neither too much nor too little? In this collection of recent posts, health care professionals search for that “just right” level of care. “I bet celebrities and...
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Reducing Mortality From Sepsis
I spent the day today with 60 physicians and nurses at a symposium focused on quality improvement and reducing mortality from sepsis. Sepsis (overwhelming infection) is the number 1 cause of hospital...
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What Patients Are The Lowest Quality Hospitals Serving?
Hospitals that provide the lowest quality care at the highest cost care for more than twice the proportion of elderly minority and poor patients as the nation’s best performers, researchers found. And...
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The Underbelly Of Vendor Management Systems And The Commoditization Of...
In an effort to save on human resources costs, some hospitals have decided to make locum tenens* doctors and nurses line items in a supply list. Next to IV tubing, liquid nutritional supplements and...
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AHRQ Says It Will Take 20 Years To Close Healthcare Quality Chasm
As one would expect from such a diverse group, comparisons were a common topic at the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease...
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): HMOs With Lipstick?
Thousands of articles have been written about forming ACOs. Millions of dollars have been spent by hospital systems to try to form an ACO. Healthcare policy consultants have discovered a new cash cow....
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Nurse Prompts Are Key To Successful Implementation Of ICU Safety Measures
Over the last few years, you may have heard a lot about the value of checklists in ICU medicine and their ability to reduce mortality, reduce cost and reduce length of stay. But a recent study took...
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Nurses With “Do Not Disturb” Signs: Government-Directed Health Care
It was supposed to be one of a series of “measures to improve safety, reliability, patient experience, staff satisfaction and efficiency of medicine management.” Instead, the wearing of red “tabards”...
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Reducing Mortality From Sepsis
I spent the day today with 60 physicians and nurses at a symposium focused on quality improvement and reducing mortality from sepsis. Sepsis (overwhelming infection) is the number 1 cause of hospital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Patients Are The Lowest Quality Hospitals Serving?
Hospitals that provide the lowest quality care at the highest cost care for more than twice the proportion of elderly minority and poor patients as the nation’s best performers, researchers found. And...
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AHRQ Says It Will Take 20 Years To Close Healthcare Quality Chasm
As one would expect from such a diverse group, comparisons were a common topic at the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease...
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): HMOs With Lipstick?
Thousands of articles have been written about forming ACOs. Millions of dollars have been spent by hospital systems to try to form an ACO. Healthcare policy consultants have discovered a new cash cow....
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Nurse Prompts Are Key To Successful Implementation Of ICU Safety Measures
Over the last few years, you may have heard a lot about the value of checklists in ICU medicine and their ability to reduce mortality, reduce cost and reduce length of stay. But a recent study took...
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Nurses With “Do Not Disturb” Signs: Government-Directed Health Care
It was supposed to be one of a series of “measures to improve safety, reliability, patient experience, staff satisfaction and efficiency of medicine management.” Instead, the wearing of red “tabards”...
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