Failure to Rescue as a Surgical Quality Indicator

Patient satisfaction as a possible indicator of quality surgical care.

IMPORTANCE In 2010, national payers announced they would begin using patient satisfaction scores to adjust reimbursements for surgical care. OBJECTIVE To determine whether patient satisfaction is independent from surgical process measures and hospital safety. DESIGN We compared the performance of hospitals that participated in the Patient Satisfaction Survey, the Centers for Medicare & Medi...

Failure to rescue in the surgical oncology population: implications for nursing and quality improvement.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To analyze the frequency, type, and correlates of postoperative complications for surgical patients with cancer to illustrate practical application of the failure to rescue concept in oncology nursing practice. DESIGN Secondary analysis of inpatient claims. SETTING Data obtained from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council were linked with data from the Penn...

An assessment of “failure to rescue” derived from routine NHS data as a nursing sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical inpatient care

Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator

Pitch perception plays a central role in processing speech prosody. Since f0 varies from speaker to speaker and from context to context, effective pitch-range normalization is thus important to uncover intended linguistic pitch targets. It has also been speculated that voice quality may play a role in pitch-range perception. Our previous study demonstrated that spectral balance indeed effective...

Is "failure to rescue" derived from administrative data in England a nurse sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical care? Observational study.

BACKGROUND 'Failure to rescue'--death after a treatable complication--is used as a nursing sensitive quality indicator in the USA. It is associated with the size of the nursing workforce relative to patient load, for example patient to nurse ratio, although assessments of nurse sensitivity have not previously considered other staff groups. This study aims to assess the potential to derive failu...