According to a recent study, hospitals are doing better in treating certain diseases and conditions. The study found that the recent focus on quality improvements have been effective in changing hospital practices to ensure that standards of care are being met in a more uniform fashion. Thus, the good news is that focusing on the issues of error and quality is starting to have a great effect! Read more here:
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This article makes me feel a little bit better about hospitals as opposed to reading the article about incidences such as the Quaid family.The comission should require hospitals it accredits to report performance data so the commission can make it public. And its plans to add a requirement that hospitals achieve certain performance levels on measures in the report is another big plus.We look to hospitals to help us when we cannot help ourselves, and if we cannot trust they they are doing their job then why go to the hospital in the first place. Dostors go to school for so long because they are responsobile for a person's life and when treating patients, they should be providing the most optimal care that they can.
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I agree with katrina, it is good to hear that hospitals are improving their procedures for certain ailments and problems. The one problem that we also descussed in class though my come up as a problem. This is "teaching to the test" or doing what they need to do to just receive a good report on paper. Just like teachers are doing with standardized testing. But i think that this is an overall improvement and is only a positive thing.
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I think that this article describes a positive direction that hospitals are headed toward better preventative measures and quality of care. It was interesting to see that one area of improvement has been surgical care, which includes appropriate use of antibiotics. Giving the wrong medicine was a top medical error according to our last online unit. Hopefully this is a step in lowering the instances of this medical error. I also agree with Jeremy. It is good to have some form of accountability for hospitals, but the way the commission does this must be thought out thoroughly so that hospitals are not trying to meet certain criteria at risk to quality of care.
ReplyDeleteI like that treatments have improved for several ailments, like heart attacks. It makes sense that if you give better care, more patients will survive. I also like that the Joint Commission requires hospitals to report performance data, and that they are setting a standard that hospitals have to achieve a certain performance level.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see that reporting the problems in a way that is not punitive seems to be increasing the quality of health care. After learning about all the things that can and do go wrong when receiving health care, I was beginning to get very worried. Hopefully patients are becoming more informed and knowledgeable consumers as well and double checking that the health care providers are giving them the proper care. I also hope that the quality of care continues to increase as the years go by.
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I think that it is a good thing and agree that hospitals are improving but when I read all of these numbers and how the percentage was so low only five to ten years ago it blows my mind. Ten years ago we may have not known how poor our quality was and thought it was dramatically improving just as we see it drastically improving now. I also saw the percentage of clot busting drugs was still incredibly low with heart attack patients and also the extremely low percentage of patients in ICU getting the correct anti-biotics. People expect to be cared for 100% and be in good hands when they go to hospitals but it is surprising to see how mediocre at best it is. While all of these statistics are encouraging and good to see, the health care system still has a long way to go.
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