Quality Improvement Initiatives Need Rigorous Evaluation: The Case of Pressure Ulcers
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Quality Improvement Initiatives Need Rigorous Evaluation: The Case of Pressure Ulcers
The Partnership for Patients (PfP) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have reported a 23.5% decline in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU) over 4 years resulting in a cumulative cost savings of more than $10 billion and 49 000 averted deaths, claiming that this significant decline may have been spurred in part by Medicare payment incentives associated with severe (st...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Medical Quality
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1062-8606,1555-824X
DOI: 10.1177/1062860616666672