Dedicated surgical care improvement team guides changes at Reid Hospital and Health Care Services
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Contributor(s):
- Edwards, Jennifer N. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospital Administration Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care Surgical Procedures, Operative Hospital Information Systems Leadership Patient Care Teams Quality Improvement Thrombolytic Therapy Venous Thrombosis -- prevention & control Humans Indiana United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Richmond, Ind. Type: Private, not-for-profit teaching hospital. Beds: 237. Distinction:Top 3 percent in composite of five surgical care improvement process-of-care measures among more than 2,300 hospitals (more than half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: April 2007 through March 2008. See Appendix for full methodology. This case study describes the strategies and factors that appear to contribute to high performance on surgical care improvement measures at Reid Hospital. It is based on information obtained from interviews with key hospital personnel and materials provided by the hospital during the spring of 2009.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101547430 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101547430