The rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, and the rate among hospitalizations ...

The CAHPS Surgical Care Survey asks adult patients to report on surgical care, surgeons, their staff, and anesthesiologists. This standardized survey expands on the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey, ...

Efforts to define terms to advance understanding are incomplete without including the perspective of patients, but we cannot learn from their experiences if we do not know how to ask. 43 The terms ...

Whatever paradigm is used, there are important distinctions to clarify, especially when quality is assessed in case reviews and judgments made about causality and preventability. Because language can ...

This project was funded under contract number 47QRAA22D006G/75Q80124F80001 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and ...

The early attention on improvement for diagnosis responded to cases of harm and thus focused on the negative, trying to define exactly what constituted an error ...

Assessments of healthcare quality tend to focus on discrete elements or facts that are predefined, prospective, and measurable. The quality paradigm is based on the foundational Donabedian model, 7 ...

A variety of perspectives influence how different stakeholders approach diagnostic improvement. The most obvious one is based on the viewpoints of patients, caregivers, and clinicians, who focus on ...

Two distinct categories of evidence contribute to diagnostic reasoning that may impact the ability to assess parameters of diagnostic correctness or adequacy. One involves the creation and use of ...

A correct diagnosis is essential to understand a patient’s condition and determine the most beneficial management in partnership with that patient. Despite the simplicity of “a correct diagnosis,” ...

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Two overarching philosophies continue to shape the terminology used about diagnosis. They create both challenges and opportunities as terms are refined and patients and caregivers are incorporated ...