Managing Risk
Making be)er decisions in Surgical Workflows
Getinge
Surgical Workflows
Volume 1 • Issue 1 • April 2018
Over the past decade, hospitals have faced intensified scrutiny by
regulatory agencies, accreditation organizations, media outlets and an
increasingly well-informed public who have a wealth of online data at
their fingertips to guide their decisions about where to seek care.
Search engine results for hospital performance data reveals an
overwhelming selection of report cards for individual institutions
coupled with national and regional comparative rankings. A number of
these performance reviews are generated by familiar sites such as U.S.
News & World Report, Consumer Reports and Medicare.gov.
U.S. News & World Report evaluates data on nearly 5,000 hospitals in 16
adult specialties, nine adult procedures/conditions and ten pediatric
specialties. U.S. News relies heavily on data that originates from the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the American Hospital
Association and other professional organizations.
Consumer Reports distills data on more than 4,000 hospitals from
the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, state inpatient databases, and the American
Hospital Association to create a Safety Score based on the following
performance metrics:
• Avoiding C-difficile infections
• Avoiding MRSA infections
• Avoiding C-sections
Medicare.gov publishes Hospital Compare that evaluates the quality
of care at more than 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals including 130
Veterans Administration medical centers across the United States.
Hospital Compare summarizes up to 57 quality measures focused
within the following categories:
• Mortality
• Safety of care
• Re-admissions
• Patient experience
• Overall heart bypass surgery performance
• Avoiding readmissions
• Overall patient experience
The numbers don't lie.
But do they always tell the truth?
• Effectiveness of care
• Timeliness of care
• Efficient use of medical images
C. Difficile
M. R. S. A.
Patients
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