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isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1964</guid> <description><![CDATA[This recent article revealed that physician self-referrals of imaging services other than standard x-rays resulted in higher costs with no demonstrable improvement in quality of care or patient convenience.  Yikes.  The implied promise when physicians lobbied to purchase complex medical equipment like ultrasounds, mammogram machines, MRIs, CT Scanners, and the like was four-fold – improved [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/12/want-to-improve-healthcare-roi-compare-clinical-utilization/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Checklists?  Check!</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/checklists-check/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/checklists-check/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:54:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1952</guid> <description><![CDATA[One simple tool – a checklist – is known to reduce the risk of costly mistakes, strengthen patient care, and improve overall patient health outcomes. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Surgical Safety Checklist”– which requires surgical teams to complete certain tasks before [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/checklists-check/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Work Backward to Move Forward</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/work-backward-to-move-forward/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/work-backward-to-move-forward/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:34:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1947</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Michelle Gray-Bernhardt &#8220;Solution-oriented&#8221;: have you heard this term? A solution-oriented approach focuses on outcomes over challenges. It works backward – it starts with an ideal situation, and then determines steps necessary to attain the ideal situation. A problem-focused approach analyzes the problem itself in detail before taking action. A solution-oriented approach dwells on solutions; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/work-backward-to-move-forward/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Internet Anonymity &#8211; truth or noise?</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/internet-anonymity-truth-or-noise/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/internet-anonymity-truth-or-noise/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:36:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1937</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Shelley Burns One promise of the Internet was that it offered a Utopian vision of collaboration – a community of truth-seekers motivated by their desire to improve. But somehow, it came about that the Internet Utopia was only possible through anonymous commentary. That meant that people’s names must be hidden, shielded to promote the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/internet-anonymity-truth-or-noise/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nurses takes on their breaks</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/nurses-takes-on-their-breaks/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/nurses-takes-on-their-breaks/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:12:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1922</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Michelle Gray-Bernhardt Do nurses take their breaks? We asked them in the survey titled: &#8220;Nurses &#8211; Give Me A Break.&#8221; Results to date are mixed. A handful of nurses and nursing leaders feel break policies are working well. Others note that break policies are not working at all. The majority feel that while allocated [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/11/nurses-takes-on-their-breaks/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Learn what&#8217;s new on nurse staffing</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/learn-the-latest-on-nurse-recruit-and-retain/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/learn-the-latest-on-nurse-recruit-and-retain/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:56:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1902</guid> <description><![CDATA[Is nurse recruitment and retention still a hospital issue? Well, yes. Overall, in the past three years, it may have become more of an employers’ market rather than an employee’s. However, in nursing, hiring and retention challenges still exist. Preliminary results for HMC&#8217;s new survey &#8220;Recruiting and Retention &#8211; Is It Still an Issue?&#8221; have [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/learn-the-latest-on-nurse-recruit-and-retain/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>It&#8217;s too hard&#8230;.</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/its-too-hard/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/its-too-hard/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:25:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1894</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Shelley Burns I listened today to Janie Wilson&#8217;s outstanding presentation about reducing elective inductions and the concomitant positive impact on outcomes and cost. (Wilson is operations director for W&#38;N Clinical Programs at Intermountain Healthcare.) She made a point on changing behavior and culture that made me think. She said: &#8220;We try to make it [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/its-too-hard/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Reformulating the 80/20 Rule</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/reformulating-the-8020-rule/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/reformulating-the-8020-rule/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:53:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1865</guid> <description><![CDATA[by Ariana Berberich Hospitals have instituted widespread quality efforts to prevent the non-reimbursed AHRQ off-quality incidents. While these quality improvement initiatives are well-intentioned, ironically, they are misguided. Based on research using our national database of hospitals (ranging in size from 5,000 to 80,000 adjusted admissions), and their admitting physicians (ranging in number from 35 to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/reformulating-the-8020-rule/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Performance improvement up close</title><link>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/performance-improvement-up-close/</link> <comments>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/performance-improvement-up-close/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:43:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/?p=1852</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Marc Songini Working every day around performance improvement initiatives, it&#8217;s easy to think of these things only as abstractions. There are so many numbers and targets and goals. There are deadlines and methodologies and meetings in the slow challenging process of attaining excellence. So many acronyms: DRGs, LOS, AHRQ, and so on. The dynamic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/2010/10/performance-improvement-up-close/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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