Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Procedures for saving the planet
An internal medicine team redesigned their procedure cart and halved the waste produced by bedside procedures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/13/free/procedures-for-saving-the-planet.htm
13 Nov 2024
New recommendations cover preop management of endocrine, hormonal, urologic medications
The guidance from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement focused on long-term medications and prioritized avoiding interruption of therapy unless continuation poses risks.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/2.htm
17 Mar 2021
HF inpatient prescribing even worse than indicated by quality improvement research
An analysis of patients treated at community-based hospitals for heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction found that, in 2022, only 17.1% were on three of the guideline-directed medical therapies for HF at discharge, while just 6.0% were on quadruple therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/hf-inpatient-prescribing-even-worse-than-indicated-by-quality-improvement-research.htm
18 Sep 2024
December 14, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/14/
Training in time-limited trials associated with less use of nonbeneficial ICU treatments
In a pre- and postintervention quality improvement study, physicians at three academic hospitals in California were trained to use time-limited trials of interventions in communication and care planning with families and surrogate decision makers of critically ill ICU patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/4.htm
21 Apr 2021
November 30, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/30/
July 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/
Education, feedback for clinicians did not affect inpatient or postdischarge heart failure outcomes
An intervention targeting hospital clinicians had no significant effect on time to first heart failure rehospitalization or death or quality-of-care scores among patients discharged after hospitalization for acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, a recent trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/04/3.htm
4 Aug 2021
Bye-bye, CLABSI. Hello, HOB.
Experts explain the CDC's new quality metric, hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB), which will look more broadly at health care-associated infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/03/bye-bye-clabsi-hello-hob.htm
3 Jul 2024
Displaying patient photographs in EHR reduced rate of wrong-patient order entry errors
As part of a quality improvement project at one Boston hospital, ED staff encouraged patients to have their photographs taken by informing them that the project was intended to improve safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/18/5.htm
18 Nov 2020