If there was a wonder drug to save the lives of infants with serious heart abnormalities, doctors would be sure to prescribe it. Parents would insist that their children get it. The company that invented it would get rich. But there already is something that can have as dramatic an impact on these young lives(...)
quality measures
To gauge hospital quality, patients deserve more outcome measures
Posted by Peter Pronovost | Measurement of Safety and Quality, Preventing Patient HarmPatients, providers and the public have much to celebrate. This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare website added central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units to its list of publicly reported quality of care measures for individual hospitals. Why is this so important? There is universal support for the idea that(...)
Feb 10, 2012 3 comments