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NQF endorses practices for safe lab medicine: focus is on processes that occur before, after testing.
July 1, 2009... The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a set of practices to improve the safety and quality of laboratory services. Past quality improvement efforts, notes the NQF, have focused on the analytic phases of laboratory testing, but very little quality improvement has focused on the...

Scale measures quality of hospital discharge process: brief questionnaire is valid.
July 1, 2009... Researchers have developed various tools to give discharge planners and physicians objective ways to determine whether patients are ready to be discharged from the hospital to home. One new tool, called B-PREPARED scale, provides a brief but thorough system of measuring a patient's...

TJC makes it clear: get surgical smoke out of OR.
July 1, 2009... The air is clearing in the nation's operating rooms, as The Joint Commission (TJC) places a greater emphasis on evacuating smoke from electrocautery procedures. In the accrediting process, hospitals have long been required to manage "risk related to hazardous material and waste." In the...

ED/hospitalist plan improves throughput: collaboration also reduces diversions.
July 1, 2009... A new plan for admitting patients from the emergency department (ED) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore jointly developed by an ED physician and a hospitalist, decreased ED throughput for admitted patients 98 minutes (from 458 minutes to 360 minutes) from the same period a...

CMS demonstration project offers potential new collaboration model: hospitals, physicians will work together to improve efficiency, quality.
April 1, 2009... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be giving hospital quality managers and other leaders a glimpse of the future with its new Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration, which it "expects to demonstrate how to better coordinate inpatient care and achieve savings in the...