Search results for "Quality"
Have a seat to improve patient care
Eye-level conversations with patients can improve their satisfaction with an encounter and potentially yours, too, a researcher explains.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/23/have-a-seat-to-improve-patient-care.htm
23 Oct 2024
Hospital performance on one stroke quality measure may predict performance on others
Hospitals that performed well on one of four indicators—carotid imaging, antithrombolytic therapy, treatment in a stroke unit, or discharge to inpatient rehabilitation—tended to also perform well on the other three, and the reverse was also true, with poor performance on one predicting poor performance on the others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/09/4.htm
9 Dec 2020
Quality and inequalities in sepsis measurement
CMS plans to start paying for performance on SEP-1. Sepsis quality experts have concerns and suggestions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/10/quality-and-inequalities-in-sepsis-measurement.htm
10 Jul 2024
Perspectives Examples
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/perspectives.html
Women hospitalized for heart failure may have lower quality of life than men
Women and men with acute heart failure had similar clinical outcomes and risk of mortality and rehospitalization, but there were differences in therapy and women reported lower health-related quality of life, a retrospective analysis of a trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/3.htm
17 Mar 2021
Texting for hospitalists
Experts are working on strategies to reduce the volume and interruptions of clinical texting.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/16/texting-for-hospitalists.htm
16 Oct 2024
CMS reports demographics, quality, cost from hospital-at-home initiative
Length of stay was longer in patients treated under CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative than among similar patients in participating hospitals, but complications and postdischarge costs trended lower and patients and clinicians were highly satisfied with care under the waiver.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/09/cms-reports-demographics-quality-cost-from-hospital-at-home-initiative.htm
9 Oct 2024
Low-performing hospitals can improve quality for in-hospital cardiac arrest over time
A study found that while percentile rankings for risk-standardized survival rates remained generally consistent during follow-up periods at 45.2% of 166 study hospitals, 21.4% of bottom-performing hospitals exhibited substantial improvements on this quality metric.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/4.htm
16 Sep 2020
Digging into the gender quality divide
There are lessons for all in a recent study that found female patients had lower mortality with female hospitalists, says one of the authors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/05/digging-into-the-gender-quality-divide.htm
5 Jun 2024
More medications in advanced life-limiting illness can lower quality of life, increase symptom burden
Polypharmacy may be particularly burdensome near the end of life as patients accumulate medications to treat and prevent multiple diseases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/13/4.htm
13 Feb 2019