Navigating Medical Device Evaluation Challenges
In this Q&A, Gina Thomas, RN, MBA, chief nursing advisor at Lumere, offers her perspective on how healthcare organizations can manage the challenges involved in evaluating the clinical, cost, and safety benefits of medical devices.
The Return on Investing in Elder Care
IHI describes an age-friendly health system as one where older adults get the best care possible, experience no healthcare-related harms, and are satisfied with the care they receive.
Weight Loss Shortens Hospital Stays, Improves Outcomes for Obese Knee Surgery Patients
Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center said shorter hospital stays were not associated with morbidly obese patients who lost between five and 10 pounds before the surgical procedure.
Researchers Downgrade Impact of CMS’ Hospital Readmission Reductions Program
The researchers contend that declines in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions are 48% lower than previously reported.
Mobile Stroke Units Quicken Surgical Treatment by 10 Minutes
In research published recently by Stroke, mobile stroke units were associated with a 10-minute gain in a key IAT workflow metric: emergency room arrival to treatment time, or door-to-puncture-time.
Penn State Leader on Physician Burnout: ‘It’s Time to Act’
Shapiro and several colleagues recently published a journal article about a five-tier hierarchy that they developed to help healthcare administrators prioritize interventions that address medical staff burnout.
Study Finds 79% of Primary Care Docs Are Burned Out
Conducted in June 2019, the study by InCrowd found that 68% of physicians across all specialties are dealing with burnout.
Top Rapid Response Teams Have Increased Autonomy
Researchers interviewed 158 hospital staff members including nurses, physicians, and administrators during site visits to nine hospitals participating in the Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation program.
Leapfrog Leader Pushes for Adoption of Expanded Medical Error Policy
Leapfrog is promoting a nine-point Never Event Policy to help health systems and hospitals address catastrophic medical errors. The nonprofit group defines a never event as egregious mistakes such as surgery performed on the wrong patient or foreign objects left inside a patient after surgery.
How Natural Language Processing Helps Advance Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
Over the last decade or so, the industry has made enormous progress in digitizing significant amounts of clinical, administrative, and billing data, but this effort has not come without problems.