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High-Quality Health Care: The Essential Route to Eliminating Disparities and Achieving Health Equity
In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high quality health care for the entire population to improve population health, improve patient care experiences and reduce health care costs.
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…
Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?According to the Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety, ICUs staffed with intensivists (also known as critical care physicians) can reduce mortality by 40 percent. This practice also is endorsed by the…
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…
A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of Health care-Associated Infections intends to review on an annual basis progress toward achieving the nine 5-year (end goal of December 31, 2013) goals or targets in the HHS Action Plan to Prevent Health…