Sepsis, a potentially-life threatening complication of an infection, affects roughly 750,000 Americans each year and costs more than $22,000 per patient to treat, according to Verras. Verras analyzed ...
Patient safety indicators, fiscal quality incentives, and penalties created by the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) are putting more pressure than ever on ...
Lifepoint Health’s CMO shares key insights into reducing unwarranted clinical variation through a clinician-centered, analytics-driven approach. In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, ...
Clinical Transformation combines GE methodologies for care delivery redesign and change management with currently available technology including Microsoft’s Amalga platform to improve efficiencies, ...
Wide variation in the way clinical services are provided to similar patients for similar visit types results in highly variable costs but similar clinical outcomes. Objective: To identify optimal ...
Addressing unwarranted clinical variation in oncology is a high priority for health systems that aspire to ensure consistent levels of high-quality and cost-effective care. Efforts to improve clinical ...
Significant clinical variations exist among patients with the most common type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), depending on the viral cause of the disease -hepatitis B virus ...
Variations in clinical practice are commonly viewed as a sign of uneven quality of care and attributed to provider self-interest. However, patient preferences, physician practice patterns, and ...
In 2002, John E. Wennberg coined and defined the term 'unwarranted variation' as “care that is not consistent with a patient's preference or related to a patient's underlying illness” (Ref. 1). Data ...
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