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1. Overview: What Measures Measure. |
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Measures and the Medical Staff. |
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Measures and Health Care Leaders. |
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Measures and Evaluating Care. |
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Quality and Finance: A Perfect Fit. |
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Quality and Accountability. |
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Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down. |
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Objectifying the Delivery of Care. |
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Case Example: Cardiac Mortality. |
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Case Example: Intensive Care Units. |
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Nothing New Under the Sun. |
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Communicating Information from Quality Measures. |
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Leadership Defines the Level of Quality. |
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3. Using Data to Improve Organizational Processes. |
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Satisfying the Demanding Consumer. |
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Measures Are Good Business. |
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Measures and Organizational Processes. |
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Case Example: Housekeeping. |
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Measures Promote Knowledge. |
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Lack of Measures Leads to Poor Resource Management. |
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Measures and Evaluating Services. |
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4. What to Measure-and Why. |
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Leadership Determines What to Measure. |
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Measures Define Quality Care. |
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Measures Inform Financial Decisions. |
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Measures and Purchasing Decisions. |
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Measures and Patient Safety. |
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Quality Methodology for Performance Improvement. |
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Developing a Performance Improvement Plan. |
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Case Example: Plan Do Check Act for Bariatric Surgery. |
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Monitoring Variance from the Standard. |
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Case Example: Moving Between Levels of Care. |
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Understanding Patient Flow. |
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5. Promoting Accountability Through Measurements. |
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Measures and Organizational Goals. |
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Case Example: Self-Extubations. |
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Getting the Doctors on Board. |
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Case Example: Wrong-Site Surgery. |
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Evaluating Information and Communicating Results. |
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6. The Rationale for External Drivers of Quality. |
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The Government Takes the Lead. |
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Monitoring Quality for Changed Practices. |
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The Media Carry the Message. |
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Public Pressure Forces Change. |
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Quality and Community Relations. |
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Quality Data Force Change. |
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Case Example: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. |
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Make the Regulations Work for You. |
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7. Integrating Data for Operational Success. |
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Different Data Tell Different Stories About Care. |
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Working with Administrative Data. |
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Working with Primary Data. |
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Operational Decisions and Quality Data. |
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Case Example: FMEA and Blood Transfusions. |
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Communicating Quality Data. |
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8. Internal Drivers of Quality. |
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Using Guidelines to Drive Quality. |
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Ensuring That the Standard of Care Is Met. |
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CareMaps Promote Standardized Care. |
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Variance Data Help Drive Quality. |
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Dealing with Resistance to CareMaps. |
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Implementing Guidelines to Drive Quality Care. |
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Everyone Benefits from CareMaps. |
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Documenting the Delivery of Care. |
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Case Example: Detoxification Guidelines. |
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9. Using Data for Performance Improvement. |
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Aggregated Data Offer a Different Perspective. |
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Case Example: Using Quality Methods to Ensure Consistency of Care. |
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Case Example: Increasing Access to Care. |
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Case Example: Improving Sterilization Across the System. |
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