Quality & Patient Safety
Two common antibiotics can help hospital outpatients heal from small skin infections involving Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The strategies that are empowering health care leaders to drive the transformation of America鈥檚 health care will take center stage July 27-29 at the 25th annual AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.This year鈥檚 meeting will explore opportunities for advancing care coordination and quality and patient鈥
More than 1,000 creative minds will come together at the fourth annual Spotlight Health to discuss the cutting-edge health issues of our time. Spotlight Health is the opening segment of the annual Aspen Ideas Festival and takes place June 22-25 in Aspen, Colo.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to remove its opioid pain medication Opana ER from the market, citing the potential for the reformulated drug to be abused. 鈥淲e will continue to take regulatory steps when we see situations where an opioid product鈥檚 risks鈥
Sun Health in Surprise, Ariz., knows what it takes to prevent Medicare patients from returning to the hospital within 30 days of discharge.
The health care organization had the lowest 30-day readmission rates of all participants in a recently concluded five-year federally funded demonstration鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not update the overall hospital quality star ratings on Hospital Compare in July as scheduled due to data issues with three of the measures included in the safety group score, according to a QualityNet notice yesterday. CMS is working to correct鈥
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they don鈥檛 always save money, according to a review of 50 quality improvement studies published yesterday by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Long-term care facilities participating in a federal project led by the AHA鈥檚 Health Research & Educational Trust reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infections by 54%, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. The project adapted the Agency for Healthcare Research鈥
Does your organization have an innovative palliative and end-of-life care program? If so, consider applying for the 2018 Circle of Life Award.Since 1999, the 鈥淐ircle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in End-of-Life Care鈥 has honored shining examples of human compassion 鈥 care that helps people鈥