Hospitals continue to show improvements in quality measures for heart attacks, pneumonia, surgery and children's asthma but there still are a few areas for improvement in quality measures, according to a new report by the Joint Commission.
Data from more than 3,000 accredited hospitals show:
1. Hospitals' composite score on the measures for using evidence-based treatments rose from 81.8 percent to 95.4 percent from 2002-2009, a an improvement of 13.6 percentage points.
2. Performance on quality measures for inpatient care of childhood asthma rose from 70.7 percent in 2007 to 88.1 percent in 2009.
3. The result for pneumonia care rose from 72.4 percent in 2002 to 92.9 percent in 2009, an improvement of 20.5 percentage points.
4. Hospitals' surgical care result improved from 77.4 percent in 2004 to 95.8 percent in 2009.
However, the report found room for improvement in two measures started in 2005:
1. Providing heart attack patients fibrinolytic therapy within 30 minutes of arrival, with only 55.2 percent of hospitals achieving 90 percent compliance or better.
2. Providing antibiotics to pneumonia patients in the ICU within 24 hours of arrival, with only 67.5 percent of hospitals achieving 90 percent compliance or better.
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Data from more than 3,000 accredited hospitals show:
1. Hospitals' composite score on the measures for using evidence-based treatments rose from 81.8 percent to 95.4 percent from 2002-2009, a an improvement of 13.6 percentage points.
2. Performance on quality measures for inpatient care of childhood asthma rose from 70.7 percent in 2007 to 88.1 percent in 2009.
3. The result for pneumonia care rose from 72.4 percent in 2002 to 92.9 percent in 2009, an improvement of 20.5 percentage points.
4. Hospitals' surgical care result improved from 77.4 percent in 2004 to 95.8 percent in 2009.
However, the report found room for improvement in two measures started in 2005:
1. Providing heart attack patients fibrinolytic therapy within 30 minutes of arrival, with only 55.2 percent of hospitals achieving 90 percent compliance or better.
2. Providing antibiotics to pneumonia patients in the ICU within 24 hours of arrival, with only 67.5 percent of hospitals achieving 90 percent compliance or better.
Read the Joint Commission release on quality of care.
Read the Joint Commission report on quality of care.
Read more coverage on quality of care.
-6 Best Practices to Continually Improve Patient Care Quality
-Thomson Reuters Study: Faith-Based Health Systems Deliver Better Patient Care
-Central-Line Infections Drop 18 Percent in First Half of 2009