Gaston Memorial Hospital: driving quality improvement with data, guidelines, and real-time feedback

Gaston Memorial Hospital: driving quality improvement with data, guidelines, and real-time feedback

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Case study. High-performing health care organization
Contributor(s):
Meyer, Jack
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2008]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Benchmarking
Clinical Protocols
Data Collection
Evidence-Based Medicine
Hospitals, Voluntary
Organizational Case Studies
Organizational Innovation
Patient Care Management -- methods
Process Assessment, Health Care -- organization & administration
North Carolina
United States
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Vital Signs. Location: Gastonia, N.C., near Charlotte Type: Nonteaching, nonprofit hospital Beds: 435. Distinction: Top 1 percent of hospitals in composite of 22 process-of-care quality measures among roughly 2,000 hospitals (about half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for this analysis. Timeframe: Second quarter of 2006 through first quarter of 2007. To be included, hospitals must have submitted data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for all 22 measures, with a minimum of 30 cases for at least one measure in each of four clinical areas. See the Appendix for full methodology.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101530746 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530746