Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control

8 Sign up for the Free Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control E-Weekly at www.beckersasc.com/clinicalquality. 42. Percentage of Heart Attack Patients given a prescription for Statin at discharge: 98% 43. Percentage of Heart failure patients given discharge instructions: 95% 44. Percentage of heart failure patients given an evaluation of left ventricular systolic function: 99% 45. Percentage of heart failure patients given ACE inhibitor or ARB for left ventricular systolic dysfunction: 97% Pneumonia patient data 46. Percentage of pneumonia patients whose initial emergency room blood culture was performed before antibiotic administration: 98% 47. Percentage of pneumonia patients given most appropriate initial antibiotics: 94% Surgery patient data 48. Percentage of outpatients who got an antibiotic within one hour of surgery: 97% 49. Percentage of patients given an antibiotic to help prevent infection within an hour of surgery: 98% 50. Percentage of patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped within 24 hours of surgery: 97% 51. Percentage of patients who got treatment within 24 hours before or after surgery to help prevent blood clots after certain types of surgery: 98% 52. Percentage of outpatients who got the right kind of antibiotic: 97% 53. Percentage of patients taking beta blockers kept on the beta blockers just before and after surgery: 97% 54. Percentage of patients given the right kind of antibiotic to prevent infection: 99% 55. Percentage of heart surgery patients whose blood glucose was well controlled in days immediately after surgery: 96% Patient Experience Percentage of patients reporting that something was "always" done during their hospital stays: 70. Nurses communicated well: 78% 71. Physicians communicated well: 81% 72. Patients received help as soon as they wanted: 67% 56. Percentage of patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second postsurgical day: 96% 73. Pain was well controlled: 71% 57. Percentage of patients actively warmed in operating room or whose body temperature was near normal by the end of surgery: 100% 75. Room and bathroom were clean: 73% 58. Percentage of patients whose physician ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries: 98% 74. Staff explained medicines before administration: 63% 76. Area around patient room was quiet at night: 60% 77. Information was given to patients about what to do at home during recovery: 84% Emergency department patient data 59. Average time spent in the emergency department before being admitted as an inpatient: 274 minutes 78. Patients rated their hospital a 9 or 10 (10 being the highest): 70% 60. Average time spent in the emergency department after doctor decided to admit them as an inpatient before moving from emergency department to inpatient room: 96 minutes Entries 80 through 83 are from the Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts 80. Number of hospital admissions Average per 1,000 population State/locally owned: 15 Nonprofit: 83 For-Profit: 16 61. Average time spent in the emergency department before being sent home: 138 minutes 62. Average time spent in the emergency department before being seen by a healthcare professional: 28 minutes 63. Average time spent with broken bones waited before receiving pain medication: 60 minutes 64. Percentage of patients who came to the emergency room with stroke symptoms and received brain scan results within 45 minutes of arrival: 46% 65. Percentage of patients assessed and given influenza vaccination: 86% 66. Percentage of patients assessed and given pneumonia vaccination: 88% Pediatric asthma data 67. Percentage of children who received reliever medication while hospitalized for asthma: 100% 68. Percentage of children who received systemic corticosteroid medication while hospitalized for asthma: 100% 69. Percentage of children and caregivers who received a home management plan of care document while hospitalized for asthma: 86% 79. Patients reported they would recommend their hospital: 71% Patient Volumes 81. Number of hospital inpatient days Average per 1,000 population State/locally owned: 95 Nonprofit: 434 For-Profit: 84 82. Hospital emergency room visits Average per 1,000 population State/locally owned: 65 Nonprofit: 291 For-profit: 55 83. Hospital outpatient visits Average per 1,000 population State-locally owned: 352 Nonprofit: 1,597* For-profit: 156 *This statistic reflects multiple visits per individual Patient Safety Culture Entries 69 through 100 are based on data from AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2012. 84. Percentage of hospital staff reporting teamwork within units: 10th percentile: 73% 25th percentile: 76% Median: 80% 75th percentile: 84% 90th percentile: 87% Average: 80%

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