Technology & Quality: Malpractice Reform Only with Incentives
The current medical malpractice environment does little if anything to encourage quality care and enhance safety, and tort reform, as espoused by government leaders, insurance company executives, and some physicians,…
Simulation Learning: Advancing Medical Education and Patient Safety through Simulation Learning
Medical education has traditionally relied on training with real patients in actual clinical settings. While hands-on, experiential learning is indispensable, medical educators are increasingly concerned about, and committed to, the safety of patients.
Quality Metric – Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium: Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines and Reporting Results Through a Quality Metric
Although it is generally acknowledged that evidence-based medicine (EBM) reflects expert consensus about the standard of care in specific disease processes, implementing guidelines that incorporate EBM meets with a great deal of resistance.
The Patient in Patient Safety
Five years after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its report To Err Is Human (1999) with its all-too-familiar statistics of medical errors in hospitals, little has changed.
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.