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Session: Quality Improvement & Hospital Performance
3346.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Quality Improvement & Hospital Performance
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):William B. Weeks, MD, MBA
2:30 PM   Do JCAHO accredited hospitals perform better on quality measures? An analysis of process-of-care measures and surgical indicators
William B. Weeks, MD, MBA, Jared Schmidek, MS, Amy Wallace, MD, MPH, Justin Dimick, MD, MPH
2:45 PM   Patient navigation in breast health services: Improving quality of services at a safety net hospital in Chicago
Kristi L. Allgood, MPH, Steven Whitman, PhD, Mary Rinder
3:00 PM   Comparing Hospital Performance: Developing more appropriate method using Peer Groups
Samuel Ogunbo, PhD, Nikolas Matthes, MD, PhD, MPH, Jacob Jen-Hao Cheng, PhD, MS, Carlos Alzola, MS
3:15 PM   Impact of waiting room times on patient satisfaction in an era of emergency department (ED) overcrowding
Virag J. Shah, MD, David Levine, MD, Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD, Helen Straus, MD, MS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:Health Administration
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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