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The Joint Commission: Quality of care improved for three conditions

Case Management Weekly, March 28, 2007

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A new report by The Joint Commission has found that hospitals across the United States have significantly improved the quality of care provided for three common but serious conditions-heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia-but large variations between facilities still leave plenty of room for improvement.

The report, which is designed to become an annual event, reviewed data from 2002 to 2005 and compared hospital's performance against standardized national performance measures and The Commission's own National Patient Safety Goals. The researchers note that hospitals are achieving 90% performance or better for about half of the measures, but are at 65% or less for two others: providing vaccines for patients admitted with pneumonia and providing discharge instructions for heart failure patients.

Source: California Healthfax

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