Quality Matters: December 2005
<p><br><br>Welcome to <a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=19875&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Fpublications%2Fpublications%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D327240%26%23doc327240">Quality Matters,</a> a monthly roundup of news and opinion on quality measurement, information technology, quality improvement initiatives, and policy innovations.<br><br><strong>Issue of the Month: Defining High Performance</strong><br />The push to define and measure health care performance has intensified in recent years through a variety of public and private initiatives. A new report from the Institute of Medicine suggests that these disparate efforts could be more effective at increasing the performance of the U.S. health care system if coordinated through a national standard-setting board. <a href="/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=327240#issue">More</a><br><br><strong>News Briefs</strong><br />Selected stories on patient safety, health care quality, and information technology from the professional literature. <a href="/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=327240#news">More</a><br><br><strong>Case Study: Achieving High-Quality Care at Reid Hospital & Health Care Services</strong><br />Quality teams and information technology (IT) specialists at a regional medical center in Richmond, Ind., designed and implemented an IT system to help the hospital meet quality standards and improve patient care. This new system, combined with the organization's overall focus on quality, led to improvements in performance across 10 widely accepted quality measures for three clinical conditions. <a href="/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=327240#casestudy">More</a><br><br><a href="/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=327240#recentpubs">Recent Publications of Note</a><br><br><a href="/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=327240#recenteds">Recent Editorials of Note</a></p>
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