Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Matthew Stampfl
Matthew Stampfl is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine.
Leapfrog Measures Show Grade Inflation
Quantifying hospital performance has become an increasingly important trend. One of the pioneers was The Leapfrog Group, who introduced a self-reported Safe Practice Score (SPS) for hospitals in 2004. Since then, measures of hospital quality have proliferated, including mandatory reports Continue Reading …
Reducing Never Events is no Easy Task
The Hospital-Acquired Condition—Present on Admission (HAC-POA) program of 2008 was one of the first federal initiatives to reduce hospital payments on the basis of adverse events. It prevents hospitals from being reimbursed by Medicare for the treatment of certain hospital-acquired Continue Reading …
Innovating and Disrupting Emergency Care
Freestanding emergency departments (FSEDs) have seen rapid growth in the United States in recent years, with their number increasing to 360 in 2015. This growth, however, has not been evenly distributed. Three states (Texas, Colorado, and Ohio) account for two-thirds Continue Reading …
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