Low income adults who were part of a medical home and had health insurance had fewer cost-related access problems, were more likely to be up-to-date with preventive screenings, and reported greater satisfaction with the quality of their care, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.
For men undergoing a radical prostatectomy (RP), hospital volume matters more than surgeon volume for 30-day complication rates, especially for older, sicker patients, according to a press release by Henry Ford Medical Center.
Jeanne Henson | in Outcomes Measures | tagged Henry Ford Medical Center | Post a Comment | Share Article A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that MRSA appears to spread from large urban hospitals to small regional hospitals by patient transmission.
A consortium of leading U.S. health systems has found wide variation in surgery times, hospital lengths-of-stay, discharge dispositions, and in-hospital complication rates for knee replacement procedures, and is taking steps to close the gaps, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Kaiser Health News found that the hospitals that make up the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” cost Medicare 1% less than the national average.
Jeanne Henson | in Cost of Care, Quality Ratings | tagged U.S. News and World Report | Post a Comment | Share Article Healthcare costs for a family of four are expected to surpass $20,000 for the first time, according to a new report by Milliman.
A new report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine calls for intensive strategies to combat the obesity epidemic in America in order to keep healthcare costs under control.
Access to healthcare for non-elderly adults has declined over the past decade, according to a study in Health Affairs.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed an additional nine quality measures on surgical care performed in hospitals and in outpatient facilities, and 19 quality measures related to preventive care, according to two NQF press releases.
Patients with healthcare-associated infections may be at higher risk for readmissions, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Standardizing and improving the way that patient care is “handed off” during hospital shift changes can reduce medical errors by as much as 40 percent, according to a press release from Boston Children’s Hospital.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed two measures that address all-cause unplanned readmissions in hospital, according to a press release.
July 2012 Hospital Compare preview reports are now available on My QualityNet for participating hospitals, according to QualityNet.org.
A Commonwealth Fund report calls for the federal government to develop a comprehensive, disciplined implementation plan that takes full advantage of the new opportunities provided by the Affordable Care Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
Jeanne Henson | in Chronic Care, Cost of Care, Population Health | tagged The Commonwealth Fund | Post a Comment | Share Article The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors voted to amend PCORI’s draft Research Agenda in response to public comments, according to a press release.