Wednesday, May 15, 2002 Medication System, measure related to quality    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) 8:03:03 PM     comment [] Acute Care Hospital, measures related to quality   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) 8:00:32 PM     comment [] Access to Care, Measurements of  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 “highly satisfied” with appointment scheduling (patient centered)       5. Percent “no show” (efficiency) 7:55:43 PM     comment [] High Level model of Whatcom Co, Pursuing Perfection approach 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. 6:19:18 PM     comment [] © Copyright 2002 Marcus Pierson, MD.

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