Patient care and quality improving, says Joint Commission report
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, November 25, 2008
Joint-Commission accredited hospitals show improvement in patient safety compliance and quality measures related to heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical conditions, according to a new Joint Commission report, released on Monday, called “Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2008.”
The report, which evaluates six years of data from more than 3,000 hospitals, states that hospitals are increasingly providing evidence-based treatments with a 96% score in heart attack care, which means that hospitals in 2007 provided evidence-based treatment 96 times for every 100 opportunities to do so. The data suggests that there is a correlation between measuring performance and quality.
Although the results are promising, the report states that some measures need to be more consistent, including discharge instructions for heart failure patients.
Hospital performance of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals is available online at Quality Check.
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