AAAHC studies offer best-practice strategies
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, May 1, 2008
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Want to know how your colleagues are improving procedure and discharge times for colonoscopies and cataract surgeries? You may want to check out the most recent studies from the Quality Institute of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
“We look for studies that we feel are important,” says Naomi Kuznets, PhD, director of the AAAHC. “Cataract surgery is the number one procedure in an ambulatory setting. Colonoscopies are number two.”
The studies collected real-time data from August 2007–November 2007. The cataract study had 78 participants, and the colonoscopy study had 107.
“For the most part, we have seen the quality rise,” Kuznets says, “but there’s still a lot of variation.”
Colonoscopy studies
The facilities taking part in the colonoscopy study performed anywhere from 100 to 17,960 colonoscopies per year, the study said. Forty participants who took part in the colonoscopy study in 2006 also took part in 2007.
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