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Heart Failure

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Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Core Measure Set

05/13/2013

Health Care Staffing Services

Performance Measurement Examples for Health Care Staffing

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Examples of How to Calculate HCSS Standardized Measure Rates

Related Topics: Health Care Staffing, Performance Measurement

04/04/2013

Hospitals

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Initiatives

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The Joint Commission is seeking volunteer hospitals of all types and sizes from across the country to pilot test draft sudden cardiac arrest performance measures.

Related Topics: Other Measures, Monograph, Performance Measurement

03/21/2013

Critical Access Hospitals

Critical Access Hospital Project

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Standardized Performance Measures

 
The Joint Commission is seeking volunteer critical access hospitals to pilot test draft critical access hospital (CAH) performance measures.

Related Topics: Measure Development Initiatives, Performance Measurement, Critical Access Hospital

03/18/2013

Venous Thromboembolism

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The Joint Commission Response to the Annals of Internal Medicine Editorial Regarding VTE.

Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Core Measure Set, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement

03/11/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

List of 2012 Accountability Measures

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List of the 2012 Accountability Measures.

Related Topics: Accountability Measures, Performance Measurement, Top Performers

02/19/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Behavioral Health Care, Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Home Care, Advanced Certification , Disease-Specific Care, Health Care Staffing Services

ORYX Non-Core Measure Information

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Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Behavioral Health Care, Other Measures

02/07/2013

Hospitals, Disease-Specific Care

Core Systems List (for Accreditation and Certification)

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Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Performance Measurement Systems

02/06/2013

Hospitals, Disease-Specific Care

Candidate Systems List

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Candidate Systems List

Related Topics: Performance Measurement Systems, Performance Measurement

01/25/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Facts about ORYX® for Hospitals (National Hospital Quality Measures)

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ORYX® is The Joint Commission’s performance measurement and improvement initiative, first implemented in 1997.

Related Topics: Core Measure Fact Sheets, Core Measures, ORYX , Performance Measurement, Hospital, Fact Sheets

01/11/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Facts about accountability measures

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In June 2010, in order to help hospitals prepare for performance measurement in the new health care environment, The Joint Commission categorized its performance measures into accountability and non-accountability measures.

Related Topics: ORYX , Performance Measurement, Fact Sheets, Accountability Measures, Core Measure Fact Sheets, Core Measures, Top Performers

09/18/2012

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Surgical Care Improvement Project

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Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Core Measure Set, Health Care-Associated Infections

08/15/2012

Hospitals, Advanced Certification

Advanced Certification in Heart Failure Measures

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The Joint Commission is seeking volunteer hospitals and their associated heart failure outpatient facilities to pilot test draft advanced certification in heart failure (ACHF) performance measures.

Related Topics: Measure Development Initiatives, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Certification, Performance Measurement, Heart Failure

08/08/2012

Advanced Certification , Disease-Specific Care

Performance Measures for Comprehensive Stroke Centers

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Comprehensive Stroke Centers must continue to meet the performance measure requirements for Primary Stroke Centers.

Related Topics: Comprehensive Stroke Center, Performance Measurement

07/12/2012

Hospitals, Advanced Certification

Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification

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The Joint Commission is seeking volunteer hospitals to pilot test draft comprehensive stroke (CSTK) performance measures.

Related Topics: Stroke, Certification, Measure Development Initiatives, Performance Measurement

06/06/2012

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient-and Family-Centered Care

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This Joint Commission initiative addresses effective communication, cultural competence, and patient- and family-centered care. Resources include the patient-centered communication standards, the Roadmap for Hospitals, and reports from a cross-sectional qualitative study.

Related Topics: Health Equity, LGBT, Advancing Effective Communication, Completed Research Projects, Leading Practice Library Addendum, Performance Measurement, Hospital, Language, & Culture

05/30/2012

Hospitals

Substance Use

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Substance Use (SUB) Core Measure Set

Related Topics: Core Measures, Core Measure Set, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Performance Measurement

02/24/2012

Hospitals

Tobacco Treatment

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Tobacco Treatment (TOB) Core Measure Set

Related Topics: Core Measure Set, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Core Measures, Performance Measurement

02/24/2012

Hospitals

Core eMeasure Pilot Project Systems List

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Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Performance Measurement Systems

02/17/2012

Non-Core Systems List

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Non-Core Systems List

Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Performance Measurement Systems

01/11/2012

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Pneumonia Measures

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In May 2001, the Joint Commission announced four initial core measurement areas for hospitals, which included pneumonia (PN).

Related Topics: Core Measure Set, Vaccinations, Health Care-Associated Infections, Vaccine, Vaccination, Performance Measurement

11/02/2011

Hospitals

Osteoporosis Initiative

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For postmenopausal females living in North America, the chances of hip fracture due to osteoporosis are greater than the chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer, uterine cancer, or ovarian cancer, combined.

Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Measure Development Initiatives

09/19/2011

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Improving America’s Hospitals - The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2011

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For the first time, The Joint Commission’s annual report on quality and safety, Improving America’s Hospitals, lists hospitals and critical access hospitals that are top performers in using evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes.

Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Annual Report, Quality, Safety

09/13/2011

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Core measure changes that impact Accountability Measures

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Effective with inpatient discharges starting with January 1, 2012

 
Core measure changes that impact Accountability Measures - Effective with inpatient discharges starting with January 1, 2012

Related Topics: Performance Measurement, Accountability Measures

09/02/2011

Hospitals

Patient Blood Management Performance Measures Project

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Patient Blood Management performance measures

Related Topics: Other Measures, Performance Measurement

06/27/2011

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