Marc's Pursuing Perfection WeblogDeveloping knowledge management for Pursuing Perfection in healthcare.Patient Centered care, the relationship between measruement and care team behavior.- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Bill Mahoney begins the open dialogue on Patient Centered care when he posts: Activated patientness is not a trait but a state. The state is created by the care team (in whatever form) providing patient-centered care. The only importance of patient traits is that they (e,g, locus of control, self-esteem, soci-economic status, location in the social structure) specify the probability of x leveltype of patient-centered care activity resulting in y level of activation. The biggest barrier (if the..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/11.html#a29 6 Aims and 10 Simple Rules for more perfect heathcare, Institute of Medicine- (Found July 11, 2008 ) The key ideas behind this entire Institute of Medicine approach includes six goals:1. Safe, 2. Effective (evidence based), 3. Patient-centered, 4. Timely, 5. Efficient, and 6. Equitable; and ten simple rules: 1. Continuous healing relationships2. Customization3. Patient control4. Shared information5. Evidence-based decision-making6. Safety as a system property7. Transparency8. Anticipation of needs9. Continuous decrease in waste10. ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/11.html#a31 High Level model of Whatcom Co, Pursuing Perfection approach- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Key Components of Whatcom Consortium's approach to Pursuing Perfection in Healhtcare. Pursuing Perfection Components in Whatcom County. We will use this or a similar graphic on the home page of the future to guide users to the parts they are interested in. We will also add search capabilities by these categories... in the future, the near future I hope.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a86 Access to Care, Measurements of- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Common Measures 1. 3rd next available appointment (effectiveness) 2. Total time for a visit (efficiency) 3. of patients on a wait list to be assigned a primary care physician (effectiveness) 4. Percent of patients &147;highly satisfied&148; with appointment scheduling (patient centered) 5. Percent...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a92 Acute Care Hospital, measures related to quality- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Common Measures 1. Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) per 1000 doses (Safety) 2. Mortality rates (Effectiveness) 3. Readmissions (Effectiveness) 4. Time to treatment on presentation (Timeliness) 5. Functional status, Quality of Life (Patient centered) 6. Average cost per case (Efficiency) 7. Average length of stay (Efficiency) 8. Hours of diversion per month (Efficiency) 9. Patient satisfaction (Patient centered)http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a93 Medication System, measure related to quality- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Common Measures: Medication System 1. Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) per 1000 doses (safety) 2. Therapeutic Range (effectiveness) 3. Cycle time to medication for certain medication (timeliness)http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a94 Great Britian's Clinical Measures- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Links to the Great Britians National Healht Service (NHS) national performance indicators.http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsperformanceindicators/2002/ha.html WA state medical reimbursement- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Rewriting WA State medical reimbursement to support new models of care.. From: Anderson, Nancy, Dr. (MAA) mailto:ANDERNAdshs.wa.gov Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: Kevin Little Cc: 'James W. Stout' Subject: RE: asthma FW: btscollege Re: Asthma group visits Medical Assistance (the Washington State Medicaid Administration) is in the process of writing billing instructions for group clinical visits, led by an MD or ARNP, that are specific for diabetes and asthma. We've written...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/18.html#a186 Searching strategies- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Searching appropriately, Our next big challenge is to get a search engine in our implementation of Radio and Manilla so that it does what the customer would expect: search the current author's category, the current author's entire web site, the entire Whatcom Community&146;s category or all local Radio PP sites, and then the WWPP by the same aggregates. One would also want to be able to search by any combination of organizations, categories, and authors. This represents design perspective.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/19.html#a216 Site map- (Found July 11, 2008 ) We need something akin to a site map for Whatcom PP that show what and who a user can link to.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/19.html#a217 |