patient-safety

The WellPoint formula for measuring quality of care is based 55% on health outcomes, 35% on patient-safety measures and 10% on patient satisfaction.

WellPoint Shakes Up Hospital Payments Janet Adamy 2011

"These errors may be less visible and dramatic than getting the wrong leg cut off, but a delay in diagnosis can adversely affect a patient's long-term outcome," says Gordon Schiff, associate director of patient-safety research at Brigham and Women's.

What the Doctor Missed Laura Landro 2010

"Readmissions are in general a very complicated issue," says Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient-safety policy for the American Hospital Association.

More discharged patients are returning via the ER 2009

Even before the law's passage, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — now headed by Dr. Donald Berwick, a stalwart in the patient-safety movement — announced it would no longer reimburse hospitals for the cost of preventable complications, such as bedsores and wrong-type blood transfusions.

Do No Harm 2010

It is providing $5 million to a patient-safety initiative involving more than 70 hospitals and aiming to reduce re-admissions by 10% by next spring.

Don't Come Back, Hospitals Say Laura Landro 2011

Peter Pronovost, a patient-safety researcher at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that diagnostic errors kill 40,000 to 80,000 hospitalized patients annually, based on autopsy studies over the past four decades.

What the Doctor Missed Laura Landro 2010

It is providing $5 million to a patient-safety initiative involving more than 70 hospitals and aiming to reduce re-admissions by 10% by next spring.

Don't Come Back, Hospitals Say Laura Landro 2011

"People may show up with a series of symptoms or complaints that aren't taken seriously at the moment, or a physician … doesn't see the complaint as something new to be concerned about," says Ann Louise Puopolo, a nurse and patient-safety program director at Crico/RMF.

What the Doctor Missed Laura Landro 2010

The research team, led by Johns Hopkins professor and patient-safety crusader Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.

Simple hospital checklist may save lives 2011

She says her patient-safety work has helped her to cope with her despair over her errors.

New Focus on Averting Errors: Hospital Culture Laura Landro 2010