Quality
Quality
Using “design thinking” to improve health care
With design thinking, the innovations come from those who actually work in health care spaces.
Practice Management
New curriculum teaches value-based health care
It is critical that hospitalists understand and embrace the concepts of value, and are able to deliver upon these ideals.
Quality
Using post-acute and long-term care quality report cards
Hospitalists and discharge planners should engage and assist patients, families, and caregivers in the decision making process.
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Ensuring a smooth data collection process
A quality improvement project provides a med student with an excellent opportunity to improve his clinical skills.
Quality
Putting Choosing Wisely into practice
At Mount Sinai Hospital, Choosing Wisely’s guidelines for hospital medicine inspired Harry Cho, MD, FACP, and his colleagues to work on the rates...
Quality
Reducing harm: When doing less is enough
With the value conversation well underway, Choosing Wisely is shifting focus to implementation.
News
Safety-net hospitals would be hurt by hospital-wide 30-day readmission penalties
Considering all readmissions within 30 days of discharge in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program would modestly increase the number of...
Quality
Identifying high-value care practices
A high-value care rounding tool could be used to measure the relationship between HVC behaviors and actual patient outcomes.
Quality
Applying Choosing Wisely principles to telemetry and catheter use
The project demonstrated a trend toward less telemetry use, fewer catheters ordered, and more selective utilization of catheters in sicker...
From the Society
Coordinating data collection in a QI project
Conducting a successful quality improvement project requires one to be forward-looking.