Accessing your Quality Payment Program feedback reports

Quality and the physician value-based payment program.

In the last decade, there has been a rapidly growing emphasis and imperative for healthcare quality improvement. With the vast number of stakeholders involved, it is reaching a pinnacle of activity and requirements. The federal government has been developing and implementing quality initiatives across the healthcare system spectrum. This article looks at three major programs: the Hospital Value...

Effect of "Continuing Education Guidance Program" on The Quality of Nursing Reports

Introduction: Nursing report registration is one of the most important responsibilities of nurses, whose continuous improvement is very important. Therefore, the aim of present study was to determine the effect of "Continuing Education Guidance Program" on the quality of nursing reports. Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental method. A total of 60 nurses of Ayatollah Taleghani Hosp...

Addressing the Payment Program Challenges

Evaluating Your Own Program

form of requirements that new programs be evalu ated. Teachers and others who have ideas and wish to try out new approaches in education, therefore, must be prepared to respond to sometimes hostile questions about a special program both at the plan ning stage and after an initial trial period. Those questions are usually a variation on, "Does it work?" The innovator could, of course, respond, "...

Arsenic in Your Food | Consumer Reports Investigation

The results of our tests were even more troubling in some ways than our findings for juice. In virtually every product tested, we found measurable amounts of total arsenic in its two forms. We found significant levels of inorganic arsenic, which is a carcinogen, in almost every product category, along with organic arsenic, which is less toxic but still of concern. Moreover, the foods we checked...