FAST STATS 2 MILLION +
adults age 65 and older are treated for fall-relat- ed injuries in U.S. emergency rooms each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accidental falls are the leading cause of injury and death in adults over the age of 65.
$30 BILLION is the annual cost to treat such injuries. 7 P.M. - 7 A.M.
is when falls are most likely to happen, and are commonly the result of patients getting up to use the bathroom.
0.527 PER 1,000
patient discharges is the national average for falls and injuries, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
of hospital falls result in injuries.
25% 2%
approximately, of all falls at hospitals result in longer stays, studies show.
2% of hospital falls result in medical complications. $4,000
is the average added treatment cost as a result of inpatient falls.
2.3 MILLION
is the number of nonfatal fall injuries among older adults who were treated in the ER.
662,000
is the number of those ER patients who were hospitalized.
Source: USA Today, “Study fi nds hospital bed alarms don’t deliver re- sults”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/05/ hospital-bed-alarms-not-effective/1748427/
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The Joint Commission expands performance measurement requirements
The Joint Commission announced that it will expand performance measurement require- ments for accredited general medical/surgical hospitals from four to six core measure sets. The additional requirements, which are part of The Joint Commission’s ORYX performance measurement initiative to stimulate and guide quality improvement efforts, will take effect January 1, 2014.
Four of the six measure sets will be manda-
tory for all general medical/surgical hospi- tals that serve specifi c patient populations addressed by the measure sets and related measures. The measure sets address acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, pneumonia and the Surgical Care Improve- ment Project (SCIP). These core measure sets are common to several federally legislated programs and selected most frequently by hospitals.
For hospitals with 1,100 or more births per year, the perinatal care measure set will become the mandatory fi fth measure set. The Joint Commission chose the perinatal care measure set because of the high volume of births in the United States (four million per year) and because it affects a signifi cant por- tion of accredited hospitals. The Joint Com- mission will monitor the threshold of 1,100 births over the fi rst four to eight quarters of data collection to reassess ongoing applica- bility. The Joint Commission expects that this threshold will be modifi ed over time so that more hospitals are included and strongly en- courages hospitals to consider adopting this measure set before the required effective date of January 1, 2014. The sixth measure set (or fi fth and sixth measure sets, for hospitals with fewer than 1,100 births per year) will be chosen by all general medical/surgical hospitals from the approved complement of core measure sets. These sets are related to children’s asthma care, emergency department care, hospital- based inpatient psychiatric services, hospital outpatients, immunization, tobacco treatment, stroke, substance use and venous thrombo- embolism. The Joint Commission expects that requirements will increase over time, depend- ing on the national healthcare environment, emerging national measurement priorities and hospitals’ ever-increasing capability to electronically capture and transmit data. Although hospitals must modify and up- date measure set selections two months before the start of data collection on January 1, 2014, data received for the newly added measure sets and measures will not be incorporated into calculations for either Performance Im- provement (PI) Standard PI.02.01.03 (which
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requires that the hospital improve its perfor- mance on ORYX accountability measures) or the Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program until suffi cient data are received. This will provide hospitals a minimum of 12 months and up to 23 months of experience with the new measure sets before the data are included in performance calculations. Performance measurement requirements
for critical access hospitals and specialty hospitals, such as children’s hospitals and psychiatric hospitals, will continue as cur- rently defi ned until other applicable metrics are identifi ed and implemented.
AHRMM White Paper: Impact of reform and the recession on supply chain management The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) has released a white paper, “Impact of Reform and the Recession on Supply Chain Manage- ment.” The report is split into three parts: the fi rst part reviews the fi ndings of the 2012 Healthcare Provider Executive Supply Chain Survey: Reform and Recession - The Impact on Supply Chain Management conducted by business consultant Jamie Kowalski; the second part discusses leveraging technolo- gies to streamline and increase effi ciencies in healthcare supply chains; and the third part covers the changing healthcare environment and its implications for hospitals and care systems of the future.
The white paper was written as a result of the AHRMM Executive Thought Leader Forum sponsored by VHA, held during the AHRMM12 Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio, TX. The distinguished group of healthcare supply chain executives met to discuss supply chain’s role in improving cost effi ciency and effectiveness. The complete white paper is available at
www.ahrmm.org/ ahrmm/kc_documents/whitepapers_case_ studies/ahrmm12_impact_reform_reces- sion_sc_management.jsp.
UDI Update: Comment now on devices on accelerated compliance schedule
Karen Conway, Executive Director, Industry Relations, GHX and HPN Editorial Advisory board member wrote in her Blog about the UDI ruling update that was released on November 19.
The comment period on the FDA’s pro- posed UDI rule is closed, and now it is up to the FDA to sort through the 300 plus com- ments received, with the goal of publishing a fi nal rule by next May — or at least that’s when the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) says it needs to be published. The agency opened up another comment period
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