NorthShore University Health System: achieving rapid improvement on core measures
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Author(s):
- Edwards, Jennifer N., author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, June 2009
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospitals, Community -- organization & administration Hospitals, Teaching -- organization & administration Hospitals, Voluntary -- organization & administration Process Assessment, Health Care -- methods Quality Indicators, Health Care Attitude of Health Personnel Data Collection -- methods Electronic Health Records Heart Failure Inservice Training Myocardial Infarction Patient Care Management Patient Discharge Pneumonia Surgical Procedures, Operative -- statistics & numerical data Surgical Wound Infection Surgical Wound Infection -- prevention & control Time Factors Humans Illinois United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.).
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Evanston, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Type: Teaching, not-for-profit community hospital system. Beds: 650 beds across three hospitals. Distinction: Top 1 percent of hospitals in composite of 24 process-of-care quality measures among roughly 2,000 hospitals (about half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: Calendar year 2007. To be included, hospitals must have submitted data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for all 24 measures, with a minimum of 30 cases for at least one measure in each of four clinical areas. See Appendix A for full methodology.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101530776 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530776