Quality measures emergency department care.
Emergency room quality indicators.
Hospital compare provides results on emergency department and outpatient quality measures which evaluate the quality of care provided to patients.
Development of measures of the quality of emergency department care for children using a structured panel process.
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These measures will ultimately end up on medicare s hospital compare web site b as have the core measures.
Timely and effective care in hospital emergency departments is essential for good patient outcomes.
Because ed performance is a key indicator of hospital health it s necessary for hospital leaders to be actively engaged in the department and its improvement efforts.
Pending emergency department measures.
Additionally it s important to keep executives informed and involved through daily rounding participation in surge calls if needed and receiving daily ed.
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It may be helpful to identify an executive such as the chief nursing officer or president of quality and safety as an executive sponsor for the improvement work.
Multiple measures are already in place affecting the ed and new measures are scheduled to start affecting hospital payment in 2012 and beyond.
Goals and scope goals develop two sets of quality indicators that are applicable to the emergency department setting patient safety indicators psi prevention quality indicators pqi set the stage for future incorporation into publicly available ahrq qi software scope implement the established ahrq qi measurement development process.