Data strategies & benchmarks : the monthly advisory for health care executives
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Data Strateg Benchmarks · Jun 1998
Comparative StudyRegional data on low back pain point to improvement potential.
Data Library: Benchmark your organization's treatment of low back pain. There's wide variation in specialty provider use, utilization of services, and costs of this high-volume medical problem--despite federal guidelines stipulating treatment recommendations. These data are broken out by specialty and on a regional basis.
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Data Strateg Benchmarks · Apr 1998
Spider diagram helps hospital cut the fat using clinical quality and patient satisfaction data.
A balancing act: When it became apparent that a 900-bed hospital in Detroit needed to cut costs to stay viable, leaders decided making across-the-board cuts would be as dangerous as making no cuts. Instead, they began measuring four different types of indicators on a new service-line basis using a spider diagram to ensure they were balancing the needs of administration, physicians, patients, and the community.
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Data Strateg Benchmarks · Mar 1998
Don't let data become too much of a good thing in clinical path, outcomes tracking efforts.
Too much of a good thing? Are you collecting too much data? At University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, caregivers were tracking every variance to every item on every clinical pathway. It was just too much work, and the reports weren't even useful. A new variance tracking system includes targeting three to 10 key events for each pathway and has resulted in greater tracking compliance and data accuracy.