Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Medicare takes aim at hospital-acquired conditions
Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
Patients with interhospital stroke transfers had higher mortality, more severe disability than front-door patients
The differing characteristics of patients who are transferred should be accounted for in the quality measurements of receiving hospitals, the study authors suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/3.htm
12 Sep 2018
February 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/
Time to antibiotics matters for septic shock, not so much for sepsis without shock
Every hour that antibiotics were delayed was associated with higher mortality from septic shock, but patients with sepsis and no shock only had elevated risk of death if their antibiotics were not administered within six hours, according to a new analysis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/09/time-to-antibiotics-matters-for-septic-shock-not-so-much-for-sepsis-without-shock.htm
9 Aug 2023
Heart failure hospitalization increased prescribing of guideline-directed therapy
At admission, only 14.9% of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction were on all indicated medications, and that rate increased to 32.8% at discharge, according to a new analysis of the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/heart-failure-hospitalization-increased-prescribing-of-guideline-directed-therapy.htm
21 Jun 2023
Data breaches, infective endocarditis
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2020
Intervention reduced nighttime orders for vital signs, VTE prophylaxis
Two general-medicine units applied physician education and default order changes to improve patient sleep, but additional benefits were seen on the one unit that also targeted nursing staff, the single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/4.htm
16 Jan 2019
Stroke transfers, order volume
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/in-the-news.htm
15 Jan 2019
More diuretics and more tips on heart failure
Optimize prescribing during and after heart failure hospitalization to improve care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/more-diuretics-and-more-tips-on-heart-failure.htm
15 Dec 2020
Asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment averted due to fewer urine cultures, study finds
Michigan hospitals successfully reduced their use of antibiotics in asymptomatic patients with positive urine cultures, and the difference could be tied to less culturing, since use of antibiotics among asymptomatic patients who got cultures didn't change significantly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-treatment-averted-due-to-fewer-urine-cultures-study-finds.htm
12 Jul 2023