Hospital Peer Review articles from April 2007

Hospital Peer Review archives from April 2007

More core measure data for 2008: Don't neglect your internally defined priorities.
April 1, 2007... More core measure data for 2008: Don't neglect your internally defined priorities Resources are 'increasingly limited' With data collection requirements continuing to increase, you'll need to be sure that internally identified...

Hospital hit by tornado shares lessons learned.(Sumter Regional Hospital)
April 1, 2007... Hospital hit by tornado shares lessons learned Peer review files may have been destroyed Disaster preparedness has been a priority for most hospitals for years, including readiness for the possibility of internal disasters such as...

Patients may define medical errors differently than you.
April 1, 2007... Patients may define medical errors differently than you Make it easy for patients to report safety concerns If a nurse failed to respond to a patient's call light in a timely manner with no harm resulting, would you consider this a...

Discharge Planning Advisor: Administrators fall short of full recognition of CM duties.(case management)
April 1, 2007... Discharge Planning Advisor Administrators fall short of full recognition of CM duties Staffing models often out of date Until a hospital's executive administrators truly acknowledge that case management is part of the cost of doing...

Discharge Planning Advisor: It takes all CM functions to provide necessary care.(case management)
April 1, 2007... Discharge Planning Advisor It takes all CM functions to provide necessary care Care coordination 'least recognized' Many top hospital decision makers still fail to recognize that case management is a core function of patient care,...

Accreditation Field Report: Best practices found in survey at KY hospital.
April 1, 2007... Best practices found in survey at KY hospital Surveyors impressed with handoff processes After the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was completed by staff at Our Lady of the...

The Quality - Cost Connection: Fault trees uncover complex causes.
April 1, 2007... Fault trees uncover complex causes Understand what the date are telling you By Patrice Spath, RHIT Brown-Spath & Associates Forest Grove, OR Root cause analysis (RCA) is a technique used during an incident investigation...

CNE/CE objectives/questions.
April 1, 2007... CNE objectives To earn continuing education (CNE) credit for subscribing to Hospital Peer Review, CNE participants should be able to: *Identify a particular clinical, legal, or educational issue related to quality improvement and...