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Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leaders
- Mary Pak, MD
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.
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Maximizing Throughput and Improving Patient Flow
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leader
- Patrick Cawley, MD
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the...
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Improving Resource Utilization
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leader
- Saeed Syed, MD
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer...
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Providing Extraordinary Availability
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leader
- Stacy Goldsholl, MD
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the...
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Leading Hospital Medical Staffs
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leader
- Mary Pak, MD And Kathleen Kerr
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see...
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Improving Physician's Practices
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Project Leaders
- Burke T. Kealey, MD And Larry Vidrine, MD
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.
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Treating Unassigned Patients
- Author:
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
- Coordinating Writer
- Phyllis Hanlon
In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care...