The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires medical staff members to provide effective mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the quality of patient care and to improve organizational perfor...
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires medical staff members to provide effective mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the quality of patient care and to improve organizational performance. Many healthcare facilities choose to meet this requirement through structured committees such as those on surgical case review, blood usage, medical record review, and pharmacy and therapeutics. This article describes a streamlined alternative to medical staff committees and explains how intensive and screening evaluations can be improved by using the most significant data.
Nosocomial pneumonia is a serious and potentially fatal occurrence in the hospital today. Medical and nursing management influence the susceptibility of an individual as well the outcome of the episode. Due to the imp...
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Nosocomial pneumonia is a serious and potentially fatal occurrence in the hospital today. Medical and nursing management influence the susceptibility of an individual as well the outcome of the episode. Due to the importance of the actions of the nurse and of the physician, monitoring the risk factors of the patient, the events preceding the episode and the pneumonia management may provide an opportunity to improve patient care. A study was conducted on patients with nosocomial pneumonia that identified areas of deficits and focused educational efforts.
This article reviews the structural changes of the Joint Commission's accreditation manual and relates how organizations can provide documentation that illustrates departmental, team, or hospital-wide efforts to i...
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This article reviews the structural changes of the Joint Commission's accreditation manual and relates how organizations can provide documentation that illustrates departmental, team, or hospital-wide efforts to improve quality. The tools reviewed in this article capture systematic performance improvement across functions and departments and include team activity. The tools also can be used as reporting documents to the governing body.
A scoring system for the evaluation of the clinical status of transported small premature infants was modified to make it applicable to the evaluation of both premature and term infants. Blood glucose concentration, s...
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The environmental rounds survey process at the UCLA NPI & H has been effective in providing clinicians and administrators with continuous data regarding clinical safety. This formal hospital-wide process is comple...
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The environmental rounds survey process at the UCLA NPI & H has been effective in providing clinicians and administrators with continuous data regarding clinical safety. This formal hospital-wide process is complemented by informal environmental rounds made periodically by clinical nurse managers and unit managers. Through these efforts, clinical safety is maintained by eradicating actual and potential patient/staff safety hazards.
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