healthcare quality

Early Post-MI Survival Improves (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Emergency Medicine  Tue, 08/18/2009 - 14:00

Declining mortality rates in acute MI over a decade suggest healthcare quality initiatives have been effective, researchers said.


 

U.S. Healthcare Quality Measures Only Edging Up

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Thu, 03/27/2008 - 16:39

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The quality of healthcare improved nationwide at a rate of 2.3% per year from 1994 to 2005, revealed dozens of measures of effectiveness, timeliness, and patient safety and satisfaction reported by the government.

But the pace of progress was slowing.