Hospital Peer Review 2004: Vol 29 Index

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Hospital Peer Review
2004 Index
Adverse events Core measures FMEAs
Are you doing enough to pre¬ Assess the quality of your core FMEA barriers to success,
vent infant deaths? SEP:128 measure data: What you find JAN:14
Can you prevent harmful staff may be surprising, FEB: 17 Prevent infant abductions with
from getting hired? APR:55 CMS and JCAHO quality mea¬ FMEA processes, JUN:77
Incident evaluations aid volun¬ sures now are the same: Will The Quality-Co$t Connection:
tary reporting, NOV: 157 that save you time? NOV:149 Get more out of your
Killer practitioners: What Impress Joint Commission and FMEAs, JAN:13
can you do to stop them? public with dramatic core The Quality-Co$t Connection:
MAR:39 measure results, MAY:61 Worst practices used in con¬
Prevent infant abductions with Use tools to improve core mea¬ ducting FMEA projects. Part
FMEA processes, JUN:77 sure results, FEB:20 1, AUG:114
Project aids rural hospitals in The Quality-Co$t Connection:
drug error reporting, MAY:65 Data management Worst practices used in con¬
Check out these web sites for ducting FMEA projects. Part
Centers for Disease Control and risk-adjusted MEDPAR data, 2, SEP:129
Prevention APR:49
Simple methods improve Handling data: Concurrent Hand hygiene
hand-washing compliance, vs. retrospective approach, Simple methods improve
APR:50 SEP:121 hand-washing compliance,
Statistical techniques for ana¬ APR:50
Centers for Medicare & lyzing patient satisfaction
Medicaid data, JUN:87 Infection control
Bill would increase CMS' What to do if physicians dis¬ 2005 JCAHO standards feature
authority over JCAHO, pute your data, JAN.ll analysis, action, JAN:6
OCT:137 Involve key players to address
CMS and JCAHO quality mea¬ Discharge planning infection control, FEB:26
sures now are the same: Will Discharge Planning Advisor: Simple methods improve
that save you time? NOV:149 Care program incorporates hand-washing compliance,
CMS publishes quality survey office-based CM approach, APR:50
tool, MAR:38 JUL:95 What JCAHO's new IC stan¬
Don't overlook COPs during Discharge Planning Advisor: dards mean for you, JAN:5
mock surveys, NOV: 154 Clinic serves as a model for
Measures help surveyors com¬ care of the uninsured, Joint Commission
pare hospitals, MAR:32 OCT:139 2005 JCAHO standards feature
Discharge Planning Advisor: Do analysis, action, JAN:6
Clinical issues you offer a choice on home 2005 National Patient Safety
Dramatically reduce your care services? JAN:7 Goals are final, SEP: 131
surgical infection rates, Discharge Planning Advisor: A quick view of JCAHO's DSC
AUG:111 Successful CM program gets certification, APR: 52
Key roles to reduce surgical JCAHO approval, APR:51 Accreditation Field Report:
infections, AUG: 112 Hospitals seeking SNF beds Key aspects of a recent Joint
Program helps patients who think creatively, JAN:9 Commission survey,
take anticoagulants, FEB:21 Research to separate DP out¬ AUG:110
Raise the bar for stroke care come, process goals, JUL:97 Accreditation Field Report:
certification program, Uninsured cases increase in New survey lets you focus
JUL:101 number, complexity, on safety, not standards,
OCT.Ul MAR:43
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Accreditation Field Report: Joint Commission issues 2005 Program targets patient, physi¬
Staff preparation pays off patient safety goals, JUN:84 cian satisfaction, JUN:80
during a JCAHO survey, Lessons learned: What to What to do if physicians dis¬
JUL:94 expect from Shared Visions pute your data, JAN: 11
Accreditation Field Report: — New Pathways, JAN:1
Survey finds problems with Measures help surveyors com¬ Medications
nonurgent medications, pare hospitals, MAR:32 Accreditation Field Report:
NOV:155 PPR tool soon will be available Survey finds problems with
Are you aggressively address¬ continuously, NOV: 156 nonurgent medications,
ing ED crowding? JCAHO Quality managers: Periodic NOV:155
says you must, JUN:73 performance review can be a Help pharmacists meet new
Are you complying with medi¬ powerful tool, AUG: 105 medication standards,
cal staff standards? SEP:122 Raise the bar for stroke care MAR:33
Avoid disasters during your certification program, Program helps patients who
next JCAHO survey: Quality JUL:101 take anticoagulants, FEB:21
managers share secrets, Resist the urge: Don't interfere Project aids rural hospitals in
JUL:89 with surveyors, JUL:93 drug error reporting, MAY:65
Bill would increase CMS' Should you submit your PPR
authority over JCAHO, results to JCAHO? AUG:108 National Patient Safety Goals
OCT:137 Try creative strategies for do- 2005 National Patient Safety
CMS and JCAHO quality mea¬ not-use abbreviations, Goals are final, SEP:131
sures now are the same: Will NOV: 152 Complying with JCAHO's
that save you time? NOV: 149 Try these foolproof tips to be read-back requirements,
Complying with JCAHO's ready for JCAHO, MAY:63 JUN:78
read-back requirements, Use tools to improve core mea¬ Joint Commission issues 2005
JUN:78 sure results, FEB:20 patient safety goals, JUN:84
Controversial report puts What JCAHO's new IC stan¬ New 2005 patient safety goals
JCAHO under scrutiny: Is dards mean for you, JAN:5 are here: Don't delay in
survey process flawed? What quality managers are developing strategies,
OCT:119 saying about JCAHO's new OCVA33
Cope with lack of control dur¬ survey process, APR:45 Try creative strategies for do-
ing new survey process, You'll soon need to update not-use abbreviations,
JAN:4 your PPR every year, NOV:152
Discharge Planning Advisor: DEC:172 Why did 2005 safety goals omit
Successful CM program gets Your next survey will be cus¬ bar coding? OCT: 136
JCAHO approval, APR:51 tomized; get ready for
Help pharmacists meet new JCAHO's priority focus, Patient education
medication standards, MAR:29 Program helps patients who
MAR:33 take anticoagulants, FEB:21
How to create and monitor Legal issues
your measures of success, Bill would increase CMS' Patient safety
OCT:138 authority over JCAHO, 2005 National Patient Safety
Impress Joint Commission and OCT:137 Goals are final, SEP:131
public with dramatic core Coming patient safety law will Coming patient safety law
measure results, MAY:61 have dramatic impact, will have dramatic impact,
JCAHO panel to assist with DEC:172 DEC:172
cultural issues, OCT:148 Consider legal risks of sharing Complying with JCAHO's
JCAHO surveyors focus on life your quality data with pub¬ read-back requirements,
safety code compliance, lic, DEC:165 JUN:78
OCT:144 Electronic systems can promote
JCAHO's anesthesia awareness Medical staff safety, study says, FEB:23
alert is call to action, Are you complying with medi¬ Incident evaluations aid volun¬
DEC:166 cal staff standards? SEP: 122 tary reporting, NOV: 157
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Joint Commission issues 2005 Program targets patient, physi¬ Publicly reported data on the
patient safety goals, JUN;84 cian satisfaction, JUN:80 rise: Act now to make it
Key roles to reduce surgical Statistical techniques for ana¬ work to your advantage,
infections, AUG:112 lyzing patient satisfaction DEC:161
Make these changes to improve data, JUN:87 Use tools to improve core mea¬
safety, MAY:68 The Quality-Co$t Connection: sure results, FEB:20
New 2005 patient safety goals Telling the patient satisfac¬
are here: Don't delay in tion story, JUN:85 Quality improvement
developing strategies, How to create and monitor
CX:T:133 Peer revieiv your measures of success,
Patient Safety Alert: 'Safety cul¬ Coming patient safety law will OCT:138
ture' approach guides health have dramatic impact, The Quality-Co$t Connection;
system's efforts, C)CT:Sup DEC: 172 Applying the principles of
Project aids rural hospitals in process variation, FEB;24
drug error reporting, MAY:65 Performance measures The Quality-Co$t Connection:
Report, new measures link Assess the quality of your core Are your care continuum
nursing care to safety, measure data: What you find linkages strong or weak?
MAY:67 may be surprising, FEB:17 MAR:41
The Quality-Co$t Connection: CMS and JCAHO quality mea¬ The Quality-Co$t Connection;
Manage organizational fear, sures now are the same: Will Are your customers also
OCT:145 that save you time? NOV:149 partners in PI initiatives?
Try creative strategies for do- Impress Joint Commission and APR:57
not-use abbreviations, public with dramatic core The Quality-Co$t Connection:
NOV:152 measure results, MAY:61 Is your organization thinking
Why did 2005 safety goals omit Measures help surveyors com¬ lean? JUL:99
bar coding? OCT:136 pare hospitals, MAR:32 The Quality-Co$t Connection:
Use tools to improve core mea¬ Move from measurement to
Patient satisfaction sure results, FEB:20 data intelligence, DEC: 174
AHA survey shows hospital The Quality-Co$t Connection:
use rising, MAR:38 Periodic performance review Use Baldrige criteria to
An evidence-based design PPR tool soon will be available advance excellence, MAY:69
reaps benefits for users, continuously, NOV: 156
SEP:124 Quality managers: Periodic Research
How to boost satisfaction rates: performance review can be a Research to separate DP out¬
A tale of two EDs, SEP: 124 powerful tool, AUG:105 come, process goals, JUL:97
Nurses play strong role in Should you submit your PPR
patient satisfaction, MAR:37 results to JCAHO? AUG:108 Salary survey results
Patient Satisfaction Planner: You'll soon need to update 2004 Salary Survey Results:
Centralized schedulers are your PPR every year, Quality role is evolving from
boon to efficiency, MAR:35 DEC:172 number cruncher to leader,
Patient Satisfaction Planner: NOV:l
Evidence-based design could Physician support
help quality of care, SEP:123 What to do if physicians dis¬ Self-assessment
Patient Satisfaction Planner: Key pute your data, JAN:11 CMS publishes quality surv^ey
words, eye contact boost sat¬ tool, MAR:38
isfaction scores, JUN:79 Publicly reported data Consumer and community
Patient Satisfaction Planner: Consider legal risks of sharing participation self-assessment,
Poor communication: Root your quality data with pub¬ APR:58
of most patient safety ills, lic, DEC:165 How to create and monitor
DEC:167 Impress Joint Commission and your measures of success,
Patient Satisfaction Planner: Shift public with dramatic core C)CT:138
bidding: Hospitals see boost measure results, MAY:61 PPR tool soon will be available
in staff morale, DEC:168 continuously, NOV:156
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Quality managers: Periodic Lessons learned: What to Staffing
performance review can be a expect from Shared Visions Can you prevent harmful staff
powerful tool, AUG:105 — New Pathways, JAN:1 from getting hired? APR:55
Should you submit your PPR Resist the urge: Don't interfere Killer practitioners: What can
results to JCAHO? AUG:108 with surveyors, JUL:93 you do to stop them?
Sentinel events Try these foolproof tips to be MAR:39
Are you doing enough to pre¬ ready for JCAHO, MAY:63 Team nursing improves staff
vent infant deaths? SEP:128 What quality managers are morale, patient care, SEP.T26
JCAHO's anesthesia awareness saying about JCAHO's new Work environment may hasten
alert is call to action, survey process, APR:45 nurse retirement, NOV:Sup
DEC:166 Your next survey will be cus¬
tomized; get ready for Surgery
Shared Visions — New JCAHO's priority focus, Dramatically reduce your
Pathways MAR:29 surgical infection rates,
Accreditation Field Report: AUG:111
New survey lets you focus Staff education JCAHO's anesthesia awareness
on safety, not standards, Accreditation Field Report: alert is call to action,
MAR:43 Staff preparation pays off DEC:166
Cope with lack of control dur¬ during a JCAHO survey, Key roles to reduce surgical
ing new survey process, JUL:94 infections, AUG:112
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