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Improving Medication Management Following Hospital Discharge through Patient-Centered Education and In-Home Monitoring
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control health care system costs by improving the patient's post-discharge medication management.
Reducing Hospital Readmissions Due to Heart Failure
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found that more than 25 percent of the readmissions were for heart failure.
Patient-Centered Pharmacy Services at the Time of Hospital Discharge
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor outcomes and readmissions to the hospital within 30 days.
Building a Culture of Patient Safety: The Reduction of Order Entry Discrepancy in the Radiology Department
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of radiology test orders by patient care unit staff into the computerized hospital information sy
Effective Resource Utilization in the Business of Caring: Tearing Down Walls and Barriers
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often challenged to remain viable: developing and growing new services is not generally a goal of inpatient u
Pay for Performance--P4P
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physicians to help the organization improve quality and safety, and reduce inpatient resource utilizat
Root Cause Analysis Across a Hospital System
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse and near-miss events.
Patient Safety in Imaging: A Multidimensional Approach for computerized Tomography Scans
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual computerized tomography (CT) requests from 2007 to 2009 to identify opportunities to prevent overutilizati
Using Process Redesign and the Electronic Health Record to Improve Timely Notification and Documentation of Critical Laboratory Values
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potential life-threatening conditions and is a requirement of regulatory and accreditation agencies includ
Developing a Fast Track Lung Cancer System to Improve Patient Safety by Expediting Diagnosis, Follow-Up and Treatment
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits in the ambulatory setting.