Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to establish, improve, and maintain a culture of patient safety in their institutions.
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per capita personal health care spending, per enrollee Medicare spending, and per enrollee Medicaid spending) in 2009, over the last decade (1998-2009), as well as the differential regional and state…
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it has greater risks and c omplications than vaignal birth. Higher cesarean delivery rates have brought higher economic costs and greater health complications for motehr and baby, with little demonstrable…
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community was readmitted within 30 days and 1 in 3 adults (32.9 percent) was rehospitalized within one year of discharge. The implication is that many patients discharged from hospitals continue to be at-risk for…
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conducted a two-week trial of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in the main OR. The checklist was incorporated by using a Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. In 2009, we began a 14-week…
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an important area for improvement during transitions.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered by sharing financial awards among providers that realize savings in health care spending while improving quality. These authors review the October 2011 regulatory policy statements related to the…
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with participating organizations, which included 24 physician practices, 48 community pharmacies and three mail-order pharmacies actively transmitting or receiving prescriptions via Surescripts.
During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their families in systems of care at the senior leadership level. Participants heard from a family who was affected by medical error, and how they are actively involved with their local health care organization…