Download or read book PHYSICIAN PRACTICE PATTERNS WITHIN AN ACUTE CARE FACILITY COST REDUCTION QUALITY MONITORING HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF written by TIMOTHY CROSS MCKEE and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: patterns.
Download or read book Physician Practice Patterns Within an Acute Care Facility written by Timothy C. McKee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presented a hypothesis that hospital cost reduction is possible in a case-based prospective payment environment by improving clinical productivity through changing the volume and mix of imput intermediate products. Potentially inappropriate intermediate product use can be identified through comparisons of different practice patterns that reflect how the intermediate products were combined to produce an inpatient episode of care. However, rather than investigating gross variation in intermediate product use, the variation must be differentiated into its two major components -- patient and physician. Variation in the volume and type of input intermediate products resulting from differences in physician practice styles is probably inappropriate. Before considering implementation of this cost reduction strategy, however, it had to be demonstrated that 1) practice patterns could be identified, 2) the different patterns could be associated with patient, physician, and outcome characteristics, and 3) individual physicians could be associated with the different patterns. The demonstration of the capability to accomplish these tasks was the major thrust of the research effort reported here. The current research had demonstrated that physician-associated practice pattern differences do exist within the demonstration hospital. Therefore, it is concluded that a cost reduction strategy based on improving clinical productivities through modification of inappropriate physician practice styles is feasible.
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Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
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Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
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Download or read book Aspects of the Computer based Patient Record written by Harold P. Lehmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hottest political issues today concerns ways to improve national healthcare systems without incurring further costs. An extensive study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the United States formally reported that computer-based patient records are absolutely necessary to help contain the cost explosion in health care. The information obtained from experts, the studies conducted, and the conclusions that went into the IOM's report have now been collected in Aspects of the Computer-Based Patient Record. A large portion of the volume discusses the state-of-the-art in existing computer-based systems as well as the essential needs which must be addressed by future computer-based patients' records. A final section in the book discusses implementation strategies for changing to the electronic system and practical issues: Who will bear the final cost? How and when will healthcare providers who use the system be trained? This volume contains the concise, valuable information which hospital administrators, hospital systems designers, third-party payer groups, and medical technology providers will need if they hope to successfully transit to hospital systems which use a computer-based patient record.
Download or read book Performance Measurement written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Measurement is the first in a new series of an ongoing effort by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to improve health care quality. Performance Measurement offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a new framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. This new book also addresses the gaps in performance measurement and introduces the need for measures that are longitudinal, comprehensive, population-based, and patient-centered. This book is directed toward all concerned with improving the quality and performance of the nation's health care system in its multiple dimensions and in both the public and private sectors.
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Download or read book Alliances written by Douglas E. Goldstein and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This executive report takes you step-by-step through the process of developing integrated delivery systems. You'll learn eleven fundamental building blocks for integration and how to apply these methods to redesign and improve your existing processes and systems.
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Download or read book Critical Pathways written by Ronald L. Gordner and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides 753 citations from journals, bks., bk. chapters, conf. papers, meet. abstracts, dissert., theses, and Av's in all languages related to clinical pathways, care or clinical maps, clinical trajectories, and integrated plans of care. Contents: managed care, patient and staff educ., rural health, legal issues, informatics, variance tracking, and evaluation. Includes care for: ambulatory, cardiovascular, wound, geriatric, home health, infectious disease, long term, neurological, oncological, ophthalmological, pediatric, respiratory, renal, and women's health.
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