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 Information Dissemination Leadership Patient Care Team Practice Guidelines as Topic Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Humans 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