Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, in contrast to physicists, dosimetrists and radiation therapists who reported the most use of error and near-miss reporting systems. Nearly all respondents agreed that error reporting is their…
This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health and cost containment. It goes on to project the financial impact of those provisions.
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving the experience of patients and their families during hospitalization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement conducted an in-depth review of the research, studied exemplar organizations, and…
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content provides trends in purchasing behavior regarding physician preference items; strategies for managing the cost of physician preference items; and how shifts in the health care landscape, such as…
The business adage 'what gets measured gets managed' applies in health care. Two projects focus on measuring and improving the patient experience in community clinics.
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive assessments of U.S. population health and health care quality, access, efficiency, and equity. It finds substantial improvement on quality-of-care indicators that have been the focus of public…
In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nations when it comes to preventable deaths. If we did as well as the top-performing countries, France and Australia, close to 90,000 deaths could be prevented each year. As costs continue to climb, adding…
The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in October 2011 promotes the need for patient safety education to improve the safety of care. The comprehensive guide assists universities and schools in the fields of dentistry, medicine, midwifery, nursing…
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specific measures of hospital quality of care. Accredited hospitals also appeared to achieve greater improvements in care over time compared to non-accredited hospitals.
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for more than 30 million Americans, strives to improve patient safety through encouraging hospitals to implement the National Quality Forum's safe practices and 3 other key safety interventions (including…