Paying hospitals for all patients' visits increases activity without necessarily improving quality, report shows

BMJ ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 345 (sep04 1) ◽  
pp. e5922-e5922
Author(s):  
M. Limb
Keyword(s):  
Quality Report

Nuclear medical inpatient treatment in Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (02) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dietlein ◽  
C. Reiners ◽  
R. Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Medicine ◽  
Thyroid Cancer ◽  
Inpatient Treatment ◽  
Radioiodine Therapy ◽  
Main Diagnosis ◽  
Medical Inpatient ◽  
Iodine Prophylaxis ◽  
Iodine Supply ◽  
Quality Report ◽  
Quality Reports

SummaryAll public licensed hospitals of Germany are obligated since 2004 to establish and to publish a structured biennial quality report. The aim of this study was to analyse the quality reports from 2008 of clinics with nuclear-medicine therapy ward and to investigate developments for the inpatient nuclear-medicine therapy by comparing the results with the quality reports of the years 2004 and 2006. Methods: All available structured quality reports of clinics with a nuclear-medicine therapy ward of the years 2004, 2006 and 2008 were evaluated. Results: The total number of inpatient treatment cases in 2008 amounted to 54 190 (2006: 54 884; 2004: 57 366). This corresponds to a decrease of 5.5% in comparison to 2004. The number of the therapy wards decreased at the same time to currently 117 (2006: 120; 2004: 124). Remarkable changes were found in the spectrum of the main diagnosis. Thus, the most frequent diagnosis with the ICD-code E05 (hyperthyroidism) decreased continuously from 37 747 treatments in 2004 and 34 764 in 2006 to 31 756 in the year 2008. In contrast, the ICD-diagnoses for thyroid cancer (C73, Z08) with 14 761 cases in 2008 increased with time (2006: 13 426; 2004: 12 581). Conclusions: In analogy to the observations from Europe after introduction of an iodine prophylaxis the improved iodine supply in Germany has led to a decline of the radioiodine therapy due to hyperthyroidism.

scholarly journals Development of an automated ERCP Quality Report Card using structured data fields

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Coté ◽  
Badih Joseph Elmunzer ◽  
Erin Forster ◽  
Robert A. Moran ◽  
John G. Quiles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Report Card ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Quality Report

scholarly journals 85HIV Quality Report Cards: Impact of Case-mix adjustment and Statistical Methods

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. S6-S6
Author(s):  
Michael Ohl ◽  
Michihiko Goto ◽  
Kelly Richardson ◽  
Marin Schweizer ◽  
Mary Vaughand-Sarrazin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Report Cards ◽  
Case Mix ◽  
Case Mix Adjustment ◽  
Quality Report
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