Quality and Safety
Beginning this year, clinicians participating in MIPS have to report on six quality measures to be eligible for a bonus payment.
U.S. minorities tend to receive fewer medical services considered effective like flu shots, aspirin following heart attack, study author says.
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
Perhaps complicating the picture is the cost of implementing a quality improvement program, the authors said.
Even though it didn't identify any actual misuse of the information, Beacon is offering affected patients access to free identity monitoring.
Overly aggressive care can hurt patients, generating mistakes and injuries believed to cause 30,000 deaths each year.
The study found that 30-day mortality rates were 1.5 percent lower at teaching hospitals, and that rate was consistent across nearly every procedure and condition.
Project took AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, and molded it around long-term care facilities.
The California bill, SB 349, says that inadequate staffing is leading to hospitalizations, medical errors and "unnecessary and avoidable deaths."
Report said 6 in 10 hospitals looked at had c-section rates above the national target rate for low-risk births.