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Healthcare Performance Improvement: Plans, Policies & Procedures 2013 Product Image

Healthcare Performance Improvement: Plans, Policies & Procedures 2013

  • Published: January 2013
  • Region: World
  • 166 Pages
  • Apollo Managed Care, Inc.

Includes strategies, example plans, programs, readmission reduction strategies, forms, tools, and resources needed to develop an effective performance improvement program in a medical group, hospital or health plan.

Introduction

- Disease management
- Clinical Guidelines
- DM in behavioral healthcare
- Patient satisfaction

Performance improvement – quality in action

Definition

Principles for performance measures in healthcare

Competency assessment strategy and tools

Plans

- Quality Improvement Plan – generic example (New 9-07)
- Practitioner Evaluation Process
- Case reviews
- Corrective Action Matrix
- Quality Improvement Program
- Quality Improvement Outreach
- Confidentiality Statement
- Quality Committee Confidentiality Agreement
- Conflict of Interest Declaration
- Joint Commission Quality and Safety Reports
- University Performance Improvement Plan – examples
- Academic Medical Center Performance Improvement Plan – example
- Academic Medical Center Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Committee functions/programs
- Hospital (Community) Performance Improvement Plan, Policy & Procedure – example

Programs

- Annual Distinquished Quality Award
- Depression management – suicide prevention programs
- Stroke Centers
- Pay for Performance
-- Evaluating change
-- Family Practice model ( UK )
-- ‘Bridges to Excellence'
-- Commonwealth Fund Opinion Leader Survey
-- Supporting Pay for Performance Programs – example
-- Requirements for physician buy-in
-- Audit form resource
-- CPOE
-- Group visits

Quality fundamentals

- Competency Assessment – Primary Care; Resident care (unsupervised)
- CQI obstacle busting
- Electronic medical records (EMR)
- Online/e-mail ‘visits' for care
- Patient satisfaction – example questionnaire for medical group practice
- Quality measures
- Reminders
- Preventive health care interventions for high risk populations
- Clinical performance measures – CAD
- Nursing home acute myocardial infarction prevention programs
- Presurgical screening tools
- Followup tracking tools – pap smears, mammograms
- Breast and colon cancer care quality measures
- Prolonged LOS related to medical injuries
- Test results – communication
- Unplanned readmissions

Case or Care Management

Clinical performance measures for ambulatory care (table)

Hand-offs – SBAR, Checklists, Resources

Quality improvement tool kit – links

Sentinel event reports – P & P

Quality notes

Provider profiles – P & P

Case mix adjustment for provider profiles

Feedback

Steps to improve productivity, resource management, physician/patient satisfaction

Ambulatory visit data

Resources

Ethics manual – link

Medicare “Pay for Performance” Initiatives

Provider profiles: example indicators for tracking & trending data

QI/UM Clinical Indicators/Performance Goals

Crosby quotes

Hospital/SNF QA Screens

Surgical Quality Indicators

Prevention Quality Indicators, AHRQ

Staff quality certification – resource

Survey sampling error – statistical estimates (table)

Quality Indicators – hospital-related

Respiratory Care Services – QI Indicators

Readmissions

- Readmission rate – examples
- Readmission tracking tool
- Readmission notes

National Patient Safety Goals

Hospital Dashboard Report

Health System Performance Report

Staff Performance Evaluation (generic)

System Performance Evaluation Coordinator for Mental Health Services

Trauma Center Performance Improvement Medical Director

Regional Utilization Manager – Job description and performance evaluation

Performance Improvement Counseling – P & P (Vanderbilt University)

Case Mix Adjustment/Severity of Illness Measures

Addenda

Project priority ranking grid;

Performance Improvement Coordinator – job description

Glossary

Quality quotes

References – listed by topic

Thoughts for the unwary

Web links

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