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		<title>Marcus Pierson, MD: Acute Care</title>
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		<description>Care in Hospitals</description>
		<copyright>Copyright 2002 Marcus Pierson, MD</copyright>
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			<title>Great Britian's Clinical Measures</title>
			<link>http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsperformanceindicators/2002/ha.html</link>
			<description>&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;Links to the Great Britians National Healht Service (NHS) national performance indicators.&lt;/FONT&gt;</description>
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			<title>Acute Care Hospital, measures related to quality</title>
			<link>http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/categories/acuteCare/2002/05/15.html#a93</link>
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;&lt;B style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Common Measures&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;&lt;B style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-tab-count: 1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;1. Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) per 1000 doses (Safety)&lt;B style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;2. Mortality rates (Effectiveness)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;3. Readmissions (Effectiveness)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;4. Time to treatment on presentation (Timeliness)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;5. Functional status, Quality of Life (Patient centered)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;6. Average cost per case (Efficiency)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;7. Average length of stay (Efficiency)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;8. Hours of diversion per month (Efficiency)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;9. Patient satisfaction (Patient centered) &lt;/P&gt;</description>
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			<title>High Level model of Whatcom Co, Pursuing Perfection approach</title>
			<link>http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/categories/acuteCare/2002/05/15.html#a86</link>
			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a84&quot;&gt;Key Components of Whatcom Consortium&apos;s approach to Pursuing Perfection in Healhtcare&lt;/A&gt;. 
&lt;P align=center&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/2002/05/15.html#a81&quot;&gt;Pursuing Perfection Components in Whatcom County&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;IMG align=baseline alt=&quot;&quot; border=0 hspace=0 src=&quot;C:\Documents and Settings\marpie\Desktop\PPGraphic.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P align=left&gt;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.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
			<source url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0107584/">Marc&apos;s Pursuing Perfection Weblog</source>
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