Error Reduction – Stop The Noise: Reduce Errors by Creating a Quieter Hospital Environment
In the typical hospital environment, sounds of beepers, alarms, machines, telephones, and voices are considered “usual and customary” — normal to those who work there and those who watch the television show “ER.”
MEDDIC-MS: MEDDICS-MS MONITORING MEASURES
MEDDIC-MS: Blood lead toxicity screening. Targeted performance improvement measure
Children in Medicaid are considered to be at risk for exposure to sources of lead poisioning in their living environment.
MEDDIC-MS: Key Words & Acronyms
MEDDIC-MS: Wisconsin’s New Quality Performance Measure System for Medicaid Managed Care
MEDDIC-MS is an automated, rapid-cycle managed care quality performance measure system for Wisconsin’s Medicaid/BadgerCare HMO program.
View From the Hill – 2005: Another Key Year to Promote Quality Healthcare
As the new calendar year started, the 109th Congress came roaring into town, and President Bush was inaugurated into office for a second term. Then for the second time ever, the president promoted improving healthcare in his 2005 State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress.
Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium: Evidence-Based Medicine and Long-Term Care
Pennsylvania, which has the third largest senior population in the United States, is in a unique position to lead in setting the standard of long-term care quality.
Ethics Toolbox: From Toothless Barking to Problem Solving
While we all purport to value ethics, the real value of ethics is unclear to many. Few perceive ethics as a valuable problem-solving resource. Yet, while ethics is touted as among the most serious and important of issues, it has good bark but little bite.
Editor’s Notebook: The “Oops Center” and Patient Safety
First, I want to say that the most important learning about patient safety is that systems — not individuals — cause errors and injuries.
Disease Management: Defining Patient Safety
The Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) is a nonprofit, voluntary membership organization, founded to represent all stakeholders in the disease management (DM) community.