Gaston Memorial Hospital: driving quality improvement with data, guidelines, and real-time feedback Gaston Memorial Hospital: driving quality improvement with data, guidelines, and real-time feedback

Collection: Health Policy and Services Research Series Title(s): Case study. High-performing health care organization Contributor(s): Meyer, Jack Commonwealth Fund. Publication: New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2008] Language(s): English Format: Text Subject(s): Benchmarking Clinical Protocols Data Collection Evidence-Based Medicine Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Organizational Innovation Patient Care Management -- methods Process Assessment, Health Care -- organization & administration North Carolina United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) Genre(s): Technical Report Abstract: Vital Signs. Location: Gastonia, N.C., near Charlotte Type: Nonteaching, nonprofit hospital Beds: 435. Distinction: Top 1 percent of hospitals in composite of 22 process-of-care quality measures among roughly 2,000 hospitals (about half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for this analysis. Timeframe: Second quarter of 2006 through first quarter of 2007. To be included, hospitals must have submitted data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for all 22 measures, with a minimum of 30 cases for at least one measure in each of four clinical areas. See the Appendix for full methodology. Copyright: Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information) Illustrations: Illustrations NLM Unique ID: 101530746 (See catalog record) Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530746