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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
August 29, 2012
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians
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Teach Back Communication Strategy Helps Healthcare Providers Help Their Patients
August 29, 2012
Teach back is a strategy in which providers ask patients to repeat, in their own words, what they have just learned about their medical condition, treatments, and self-care
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Shaun Frost: High-Value Healthcare
August 29, 2012
Applying accountability principles to improve our care-delivery system
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Enhanced Provider-Patient Communication Improves Discharge Process
August 28, 2012
Teach-back can help effectively communicate the key teaching points hospitalized patients and their caregivers should take home
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Study: Collaborative Approach to Med Rec Effective, Cost-Efficient
August 7, 2012
Adverse-drug-event prevention is a “team game,” says researcher
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Workforce Shortages, Increased Patient Populations, and Funding Woes Pressure U.S. Primary-Care System
July 31, 2012
The primary-care workforce has been on a downward slide that is sounding alarm bells throughout the country.
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Most Adverse Events at Hospitals Still Go Unreported
July 31, 2012
Hospitalists can help by fixing broken systems, creating safe-to-report work environments.
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What Is the Optimal Therapy for Acute DVT?
- Meghan Sebasky, MD;
- Michele Dekorte, MD
July 31, 2012
VTE, including lower- and upperextremity DVT and pulmonary embolism, is one of the most common and preventable hospital diseases.
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Established Performance Metrics Help CMS Expand Its Value-Based Purchasing Program
- Christopher Guadagnino, PhD
July 31, 2012
CMS is marching toward a value-based payment modifier program that will adjust physician reimbursement based on the relative quality and efficiency of care they provide.
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Southern California Hospitals Find BOOST Tools Helpful
July 31, 2012
Most hospitals realize immediate readmissions reductions.