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Medical Confessional Highlights Doctors' Diagnostic ErrorsWhen 310 doctors at 22 U.S. healthcare facilities were asked to anonymously confess the diagnostic errors they made or witnessed, the two most frequently listed conditions involved pulmonary embolism and adverse drug reactions, including overdoses and poisoning. Lung cancer diagnostic mistakes ranked a close third, followed by colorectal cancer, acute coronary syndrome, breast cancer, and stroke. [ Read More]
Half of Nonprofit Hospital Boards Don't Value Clinical Quality as Top ConcernHalf of the board chairs of the nation's nonprofit hospitals said their boards don't rank clinical quality as one of their two highest priorities, according to results of a Harvard survey said to be the first of its kind. However, chairs of boards that did prioritize quality oversaw hospitals that performed better on national Hospital Quality Alliance measurements than hospitals where boards didn't rank quality of the highest importance. [ Read More]
Pay-for-Performance Participation Can Be Pricey for DocsPay-for-performance may be the rage, and the future of physician reimbursement—but it doesn't come cheap. Responding to all those requests for data, proper planning, training, coding, data entry, and modification of electronic systems cost physician practices between $1,000 to $11,100 in implementation costs per doctor, and from about $100 to $4,300 per year per clinician after the program was launched. These figures come from a survey of eight physician practices participating in four North Carolina quality reporting programs. [ Read More]
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Care Team Architecture
| Creativity and flexibility count, sure. But underlying the successful care team design is a foundation of essential and lasting values. [Read More] |
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State of Emergency
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The nation's emergency departments are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, but innovations in patient throughput and other strategies offer hope for a beleaguered system. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Utilizing Clinical Integration to Foster Successful Hospital Operations Improvement: Don't use impending healthcare reform and the uncertainties surrounding it as an excuse not to enact necessary clinical integration strategies that will improve operations regardless of how legislative healthcare reform eventually plays out. While considerable uncertainty still exists surrounding the details of healthcare reform, certain consequences of reform are so likely that hospitals need to address them. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
Eileen Dohmann, RN, VP of nursing for Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA, explains the difference between responsibility and accountability, and offers strategies for getting staff to make and keep commitments. [Listen Now]
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