Category: Quality

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Just 5% of small firms reported reviewing performance indicators of health plans’ clinical and service quality.
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Most of that total came from medical care and prescription drugs to people injured by errors.
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Katherine Hobson
Would you pick a doctor or a hospital if you knew they were more wired?
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IHI’s new CEO is its current chief operating officer, 57-year old Maureen Bisognano.
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USPSTF guidelines will first be posted in draft form on the group’s website for a four-week public -comment period.
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One panel member said unprofessional and abusive behavior was “pervasive in medical training.”
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The U.S. the most on health per capita — $7,290 in 2007 compared to an estimated $3,387 in the top-ranking Netherlands.
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A composite score of six infection-prevention measures does correlate with surgical infection rates, the study finds.
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Medicare patients who spend more on drugs don’t necessarily spend less on other forms of medical care in the same year.
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State inspectors noted at least one lapse at 68% of the outpatient surgical centers and saw lapses in at least three areas at 18% of the facilities.
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