3346.0 Quality Improvement & Hospital Performance

Monday, November 5, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
Presider:
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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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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