Optimizing Widely Reported Hospital Quality and Safety Grades: An Ochsner Quality and Value Playbook

This practical, engaging book provides concise, real life-tested guidance to healthcare teams concerned with widely reported and incentivized hospital quality and safety metrics, offering both a conceptual approach and specific advice and frameworks for reviewing quality and safety numerator events, from the perspective and experience of clinicians and administrators working within the Ochsner Health System.

The text opens with the rationale for closely managing widely (including publicly) reported hospital patient quality and safety measures. Attention is given to the financial implications of quality performance, with respect to both penalties and payment incentives used by payer organizations. It then reviews the major public ratings and their relevant methodologies, including CMS, AHRQ and NSHN. In addition, it addresses ratings by proprietary organizations that have a large member clientele, such as Vizient, USNews, Leapfrog, Healthgrades, CareChex and others. Each metric - for example, the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), and other metrics such as readmission rate, risk adjusted complications, hospital-acquired conditions and mortality - is addressed in a stand-alone chapter. For each, the importance, approach to review, opportunity for optimization, and engagement of healthcare staff are reviewed and discussed.

Overall, this book forefronts the benefits of a collabora

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Armin Schubert; Sandra A. Kemmerly

ISBN:

978-3-03-104140-2

Specialty:

• Community Health & Disease Prevention

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

418

Publication Year:

2022

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• Ovid MEDLINE®