Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
One last year's Raffle Winners recently sent us a picture of a few students and teachers of the University of Delaware's MLS program and their new Bobble-Head.
They also included a poem...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
We've all heard the infamous quote now over a decade and a half old: that US hospitals kill between roughly 40,000 and 90,000 patients each year. This was an estimate courtesy of the Institute of Medicine report "To Err Is Human" which made the dire performance of hospitals knowledge that even the general public could understand.
But more recently, studies have been tracking the adverse event rates much more closely. A recent NEJM paper followed four conditions from 2005 to 2011.
Of these four conditions, which do you think has the best Sigma performance when it comes to the occurrence of adverse events?
A. Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
B. Congestive Heart Failure
C. Pneumonia
D. (other) Conditions Requiring Surgery
The answer, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Laboratories in the US probably already know this: their healthcare institutions are getting hit with fines from CMS due to excessive 30-day readmission rates for three conditions:
(AMI) Acute myocardial infarction
(HF) Heart Failure
Pneumonia patients
CMS is imposing increasing fines for hospitals that have excessive readmissions. Guess how many hospitals have been fined - and how much money they've had to pay back...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Recall back in July we mentioned a raffle for a "Westgard Rules" Bobble-head?
Well, the Bobble-heads took a bit longer to arrive (that boat from China is slower than we thought), so we can now announce the winners...
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