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The seven features in their resulting For Us framework correspond well to existing theoretical as well as applied quality improvement strategies. While we agree that their framework describes pfizer viagra online features that every labour and delivery unit should strive to include, this approach has some limitations in terms of generalisability. Specifically, Liberati and colleagues studied maternity units that are high performing, but their sample included only large-volume hospitals in what appear to be well-resourced settings. What is potentially missing is observations on underperforming units, and how these pfizer viagra online findings may or may not apply to smaller, lower resourced settings.

Additionally, the structure of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) also limits generalisability. For example, this is most pfizer viagra online analogous to employed physician models in the USA, with the potential advantage of a more organisationally oriented provider workforce. Given that most US hospitals do not have an employed provider model, we can’t assume that these factors will have the same impact in other models of care.In the USA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a Culture of Safety framework that delineates four key features. (1) organisations recognise that pfizer viagra online their primary activities are inherently high risk and make it their goal to operate in a reliably safe manner.

(2) organisations create a safe and blame-free reporting pfizer viagra online environment. (3) interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration is encouraged to address safety problems. And (4) resources are deliberately allocated and made available to address safety.2 This framework, as does For Us, focuses on a healthcare-oriented conceptualisation of safety and quality, and details pfizer viagra online medical outcomes as the primary metrics by which to measure success. Although achievement of these medical quality outcomes is imperative, we propose that there are additional domains needed to provide safe intrapartum care.

(A) prioritising patient experience—including emotional safety, birthing with dignity and an pfizer viagra online expectation of person-centred care. And (B) a unit culture that values low intervention births. Let us consider these domains in more depth.Patient experience and safety are inextricable pfizer viagra online. While much work has been done to improve physician–patient communication,3 4 few have successfully targeted the perpetuation of dysfunctional behaviours grounded in healthcare professionals’ implicit and explicit biases.5 This may be in part due to the tendency to observe and look for answers from the standpoint of the healthcare system rather than patients.

Women who had recently given birth were included pfizer viagra online in the study of Liberati and colleagues, but represented only 8 of 65 individual stakeholder interviews, and were not included in focus groups. The framework thus describes a high-functioning system from primarily the healthcare system’s perspective pfizer viagra online. In general, the patient’s role in achieving safe care includes many aspects, including providing personal information to reach the correct diagnosis, providing their values and lived experience in shared decision-making discussions, choosing their provider such that their needs regarding provider experience and safe practice are met, making sure that they receive the recommended treatments in a timely manner, as well as identifying and reporting errors.6 The detriment to health outcomes among patients who have failed interactions with providers is well documented (eg, leaving against medical advice or experiencing disrespect during their care) while other harms, such as psychological trauma, often go unmeasured.7Emotional and psychological trauma are safety errors, whether or not a patient leaves the hospital physically intact.8 Research has shown that patients experience psychological trauma both as a result of an adverse outcome and as a result of how the incident was managed. In birth, patients conceptualise the meaning of safety very pfizer viagra online differently from that of the medical system, with physical and emotional safety being inextricably interwoven into a single concept.9 Psychological trauma may manifest in postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress disorder10 and, some studies suggest, reduced childbearing in patients who experience traumatic birth.11 The experience of emotional safety on the part of the patient is only knowable to the patient, and only addressable when health systems—and health services research—ask the appropriate questions.

Therefore, patient-reported experience measures and critical examination of the process of patient-centred care should be at the centre of quality improvement.High-performing units prioritise patient voice and patient experience as a part of their culture. In a recent article, Morton and Simkin12 delineate steps to promote respectful maternity care in institutions, including obtaining unit commitment to respectful care, implementing training programmes to support respectful care as the norm and, finally, instituting respectful treatment of healthcare staff and clinicians by administrators and leaders—in other words, a unit culture of mutual respect and care among the entire team enables respectful care of the patient pfizer viagra online. Liberati and colleagues address the issue of hierarchies on labour and delivery, making the key observation that high-performing units create hierarchies around expertise rather than formal titles or disciplinary silos. However, this power differential applies to patients as pfizer viagra online well.

The existing hierarchy on most labour units places physicians at the top and patients at the bottom, which often acts to silence patients’ voices.13 Implicit bias and interpersonal racism and sexism contribute to this cycle of silence and mistreatment on labour and delivery units.14 Disrespect and dismissal of patient concerns have been increasingly described, but still lack quantitative measurement in association with maternal and child health outcomes.15 Interventions aimed at harm reduction are emerging,16 but more work is desperately needed in this area.Valuing low intervention is an important dimension of safety. Safety culture, pfizer viagra online as it is conceptualised by AHRQ and the current study, is ideally created to prevent or respond to harmful safety lapses. This model is more difficult to apply to an environment where the goal is safe facilitation of a normal biological process. In this setting, pfizer viagra online interventions (that often beget more interventions) can increase complications.

High rates of primary and repeat caesarean deliveries, and other invasive pfizer viagra online obstetric interventions seen in many birthing units are now widely acknowledged to be overused and overuse constitutes a patient safety risk.17 In our work in California, we have been able to demonstrate that provider attitudes, beliefs and unit culture can drive caesarean delivery overuse in ways that do not contribute to patient safety.18 19 Each intervention needs to be carefully and jointly considered for value and safety. This in no way diminishes the life-saving nature of caesarean delivery when it is medically indicated, but it sets up the expectation that safety measures, processes and procedures must be in place to actively work towards supporting vaginal birth rather than treating each labour as an emergency waiting to happen. The striking variation in obstetric intervention rates pfizer viagra online among hospitals and providers can provide critical insights. So, what is the right balance of intervention rates and mother/baby safety outcomes?.

In many instances, this may be a false dichotomy pfizer viagra online. In a study of California hospital labour practices, Lundsberg et al found that hospitals that prioritised low labour interventions and actively supported vaginal birth (eg, delaying admission until active labour onset, use of doulas, intermittent auscultation of fetal heart tones, non-pharmacological pain relief, and so on) had reduced caesarean delivery rates with well-preserved neonatal outcomes.20 It should be noted that in the USA, rates of intervention are starting at a high level so there is less danger of harm from achieving too low a rate. This may not be the case in the UK where there are now formal inquiries examining obstetric care in multiple NHS hospital trusts where poor perinatal outcomes have been linked to a systematic aversion pfizer viagra online to medical interventions even when indicated.21 Getting this balance right has been referred to as the Goldilocks quandary. Doing too little, too much or just right?.

22In conclusion, physical safety is the bare minimum of what pfizer viagra online should be expected in childbirth. Patients have a right, and healthcare providers and systems have an obligation to aim higher, to ensure patients emerge from childbirth as healthy or healthier—both physically and psychologically—than before entering the hospital. This can be best achieved by broadening the lens of what pfizer viagra online we consider essential to safety on maternity units to include prioritising patient experience, birthing with dignity and valuing low intervention rates. All of these domains need to be in balance.

Good mother or baby medical outcomes at pfizer viagra online the cost of high rates of intervention and high maternal psychological trauma are not a success, nor is the opposite. The true ‘safe’ maternity unit is one that does well on all of these dimensions, which, of course, means that we need to be able pfizer viagra online to measure each of them. Finally, all of these safety domains, including the ‘For Us’ framework proposed by Liberati and colleagues, focus on unit culture, provider behaviours and processes of care, and thus are within the reach of all maternity units no matter their level of resources.Healthcare-associated s (HCAIs) are those s acquired by an individual who is seeking medical care in any healthcare facility, including acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities (including nursing homes), outpatient surgical centres, dialysis centres or ambulatory care clinics.1 They are further defined as occurring at least 48 hours after hospitalisation or within 30 days of receiving medical care.2 HCAIs have plagued hospitals, physicians and patients for centuries and likely played a role in the reputation that hospitals historically had as dangerous places.3 In the mid-19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis observed that labouring mothers in an obstetrics unit had a high incidence of Puerperal (Childbed) fever, which he thought was related to direct contact with medical students. After working with cadavers, students often pfizer viagra online moved directly from the anatomy lab to the hospital, leading Semmelweis to postulate that students were contaminated and bringing a pathogen into the unit.

He saw dramatic improvements in maternal mortality after introducing a chlorinated lime hand wash for healthcare providers.4 Though not quickly accepted at large, his observations would become part of the foundation of the germ theory that we intuitively accept today.Over a century after Semmelweis introduced the idea of hand hygiene, prevention in healthcare settings has been thrust into the spotlight worldwide. In the 1960s, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted research within the Comprehensive Hospital s Project and introduced surveillance and control techniques still used today pfizer viagra online. The creation of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) propelled control onto a national public health platform in the USA.3 Today, reduction of HCAIs has become a regulatory, financial and quality imperative across the world.Healthcare frequently involves the use of invasive devices and procedures that can increase the risk of HCAIs, including catheter-associated urinary tract s, central-line associated bloodstream s (CLABSIs), surgical site s and ventilator-associated events.5 The development of antimicrobial resistance related to antibiotic misuse or overuse6 has given rise to multidrug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended spectrum beta lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and diarrheal s with Clostridioides difficile. Today, most states in the USA have passed legislation mandating that healthcare facilities pfizer viagra online publicly report HCAIs, most often using the CDC NHSN surveillance definition for event reporting.7 Globally, the WHO’s Clean Care is Safer Care Programme is working alongside many nations to introduce surveillance and reporting programmes to strengthen the international response.8The patient environment has become a major focus of control interventions.

Although a large proportion of HCAIs are attributed to a patient’s endogenous microflora, up to 40% of nosocomial s are cross-s from the hands of healthcare providers, including transmission from high-touch patient-care surfaces.9 In order for pathogens to be transmitted, they generally must have characteristics that make them more robust in the environment, such as the ability to frequently colonise, survive and remain virulent on environmental surfaces and the ability to transiently colonise and pass from the hands of healthcare providers to patients or environmental surfaces.9 C. Difficile poses additional challenges for environmental control because of its ability to form spores that resist dry heat and many disinfectants.9 Even with active surveillance and the introduction of new environmental dis technologies, such as uaviolet germicidal irradiation,10 studies have demonstrated that patients hospitalised in rooms with previous occupants who were pfizer viagra online MRSA colonised or infected with C. Difficile were more likely to become contaminated,7 supporting the notion that hospital environments play an important role in HCAI transmission.Both the duration of hospitalisation and frequency of transfer between and within healthcare facilities increase the likelihood of exposure to contaminated environments. Intrahospital transfers refer to the pfizer viagra online movement of a patient within a healthcare facility, including transfers from the emergency room to an inpatient unit on admission, between two different units, to a different department for a procedure or diagnostic study or between rooms on the same unit.11 McHaney-Lindstrom and colleagues conducted a retrospective case-control study that found that with every additional intrahospital transfer, the odds of acquiring an with C.

Difficile increased by 7%.12 These transfers require a complex cascade of events and are affected by environmental control and communication challenges, professional conflicts related to variation in culture between units, hospital census and provider workload.13 In a systematic review, Bristol and colleagues found that intrahospital transfers are frequently associated with adverse outcomes, such as delirium, increased risk of falls, increased pfizer viagra online length of stay and prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation and central venous catheterisation.13 This therefore further highlights the significance of intrahospital transfers on patient outcomes.In this issue, Boncea and colleagues report on a retrospective case-control study conducted to estimate the risk of developing a HCAI depending on the number of intrahospital transfers between inpatient units or the same unit.11 The study was conducted in three urban hospitals within one UK hospital organisation. The study focused on patients aged 65 or older, given their higher frequency of access to medical care. Data were collected from the electronic health record (EHR) over a 3-year period and included a total of 24 240 hospitalisations of which 2877 were pfizer viagra online cases where the patient had a positive clinical culture obtained at least 48 hours after hospitalisation. Cases and controls were matched by potential confounding variables, including Elixhauser comorbidities, age, gender and total number of admissions.

Using multivariable logistic regression modelling, they found that for every additional intrahospital transfer, the odds of acquiring a HCAI increased by 9%, with the most common HCAI being C pfizer viagra online. Difficile .This study is one of the first to quantify the risk associated with the number of intrahospital transfers and HCAIs. Cases and pfizer viagra online controls were well matched, and the statistical modelling provides very compelling results. However, it is worth noting some features of the study that can affect the findings.

The study pfizer viagra online does not provide specific details on the active surveillance testing practices of the hospital network. Without these data, theoretically (and by chance), cases selected for this study could have been colonised by MRSA more frequently than controls, which would introduce a level of bias. C. Difficile was measured from the EHR by positive toxin immunoassay results, but the clinical context of this testing is not clear, raising the possibility that some positive patients may have represented colonisation and not acute .

The study also did not adjust for the indication for transfer (eg, transfer to or from the intensive care unit based on patient acuity, transfer for isolation precautions or transfer due to bed capacity or staffing issues) to determine if the patient care needs, isolation status or hospital strain modify the observed risk. As the authors acknowledge, prospective studies are needed to identify the clinical, administrative and systems factors that contribute to more frequent intrahospital transfers.Guidelines for prevention and control of HCAIs include evidence-based interventions that can be broadly categorised as either vertical or horizontal. Vertical interventions focus on reducing colonisation, and transmission of specific pathogens,7 and include surveillance testing for asymptomatic carriers, contact isolation precautions and targeted decolonisation.7 Horizontal interventions aim to reduce the risk of by a larger group of pathogens, independent of patient-specific conditions, such as optimisation of hand hygiene, antimicrobial stewardship and environmental cleaning practices.7 control programmes are tasked with weighing the risks and benefits of interventions to reduce rates of HCAIs while also being cost effective. Vertical approaches to prevent MRSA transmission and remain controversial due to inconsistent findings.7 In a nationwide US Veteran’s Affairs study that assessed the impact of MRSA surveillance testing and contact isolation in MRSA carriers, researchers demonstrated that these interventions resulted in reduced rates of MRSA and colonisation as well as reductions in the incidence of healthcare-associated C.

Difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus s.14 In contrast, other studies evaluating similar practices in intensive care units found little impact of vertical control measures on MRSA rates15 and describe unintended consequences, such as decreased provider-patient contact, increased patient anxiety and patient dissatisfaction with quality of care.16Under endemic conditions, horizontal interventions may be more cost effective and beneficial given the broader number of microorganisms that can be targeted.7 Hand hygiene remains a core horizontal intervention, but hand hygiene compliance varies widely, with some countries’ hospitals compliance reported as low as 15%.17 Several studies focused on intensive care units have shown significant declines in MRSA colonisation rates when hand hygiene practices improve.7 In addition to hand hygiene, universal decolonisation strategies that typically use chlorhexidine gluconate bathing of high risk patients are more impactful than active surveillance testing for individual pathogens at reducing rates of HCAIs such as CLABSIs.7 A central pillar of control is antimicrobial stewardship. These programmes use coordinated interventions to promote appropriate antimicrobial use, improve patient outcomes, decrease antibiotic resistance and reduce the incidence of s secondary to multidrug-resistant organisms.18 Given variation in environmental dis practices and provider-to-provider communication, reducing the frequency of intrahospital transfers is another potential horizontal intervention to reduce the burden of HCAIs.Boncea and colleagues’ study adds to the growing body of literature that intrahospital transfers may increase the risk of HCAIs. Prior studies have identified that patients experience an average of 2.4 transfers during a hospitalisation and approximately 96% of individuals experience a transfer during hospitalisation.13 Transfers within the hospital also affect patient care and safety in other ways, resulting in delays in diagnosis and treatment due, in part, to poor coordination of care and inadequate handoffs between units.19 Additionally, intrahospital transfers take an average of 1 hour to complete, adding significantly to nursing workload.19The field of control must continue to adapt to changing hospital environments in order to further reduce the risk of HCAIs. In the most recent progress report from US CDC, one in every 31 US patients will experience a HCAI while hospitalised,20 contributing to preventable deaths and permanent harm and to a tremendous excess cost of care.21 While the impact of these s is readily recognised in the developed world, recent studies indicate that the impact of HCAIs in the developing world is staggering, with one study reporting that the pooled-prevalence of HCAIs in resource-limited settings is 15.5 per 100 patients, compared with 4.5 per 100 patients in the USA and 7.1 per 100 patients in Europe.22 control programmes must continue to survey their respective hospital populations and evolve to the demand of the time, weighing benefits, balancing measures and costs.

Reducing the number of intrahospital transfers and improving care coordination across these transitions represent a future opportunity to further reduce the burden of HCAIs..

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When a patient made a payment, it would automatically post to the appropriate accounts and balances, without requiring intervention from UPA’s CBO staff.“For UPA, this would mean that our staff would have better ability to spend time on complicated patient accounts, better response time on the phone and happier patients overall,” Bailey said.MEETING THE CHALLENGERelatient’s MDpay revenue cycle management system provided the functionality UPA was seeking. The implementation was one of the smoothest Bailey has experienced.“Everything is more streamlined, and our patients have adapted to the technology because they’re now making payments digitally 60% of the pfizer viagra online time,” she noted. €œFor patients that call into our service department, the process of taking their payments is faster and easier. Our CBO staff are the main pfizer viagra online users of the MDpay system and patient balance messaging.

The platform gives us the ability to control the frequency and timing of our messaging, and is easy to use for both our staff and patients.”UPA also started implementing the vendor’s appointment reminders system across its physicians’ practices, something that’s mainly used by physician practice managers and clinic staff. The RCM system and appointment reminders are integrated with UPA’s practice management system from Greenway Health.“The integration allows for real-time balances versus the traditional statement-generation process that drives a longer revenue cycle,” Bailey pfizer viagra online explained. €œThe time saved and increased accuracy from the integration auto-posting payments within our system is priceless. It also means patient responses to appointment reminders pfizer viagra online update in our scheduling system automatically, making the data easy to access and powering proactive patient communication when needed.”Further, Relatient makes benchmarking data available to UPA, allowing UPA to make modifications where needed to continuously improve its use of the system to get better results, she added.RESULTSUPA saw patient payments increase 43% upon implementing MDpay and patient balance messaging.“We believe this is because patients are more responsive on their mobile devices, and it’s so much easier to pay,” Bailey said.

€œIt’s helping us collect debt faster, too. The payment lag for self-pay pfizer viagra online patients is down 20 days. That’s huge.”UPA also has patients who grant permission to keep a credit card on file and charge smaller balances automatically, so they don’t have to keep track of them pfizer viagra online. They get email receipts, so they have a record of all the charges.

It all works together to bring these patient payments in more pfizer viagra online quickly and to increase what’s collected. UPA has seen a 10.5% reduction in accounts receivable days.“The 43% increase in patient payments is driving an overall increase in monthly physician revenue of 7%,” she added. €œThat may pfizer viagra online not seem like a big number, but that increase is significant – it equals a lot of revenue for our physicians.”ADVICE FOR OTHERS“Get a crystal clear understanding of what you’re trying to solve and why,” Bailey advised. €œWe’re a third-party vendor, so we were making decisions based on how we could expand the value we offer our customers and do it in a way that would benefit patients, too.”But UPA also knew that it was going to need an IT vendor that would listen to its specific requirements, as it serves many varying specialties and the business is complex.“A vendor that was going to try to force us into a cookie-cutter solution that didn’t really meet our needs wasn’t going to work,” she said.

€œIf you know what you’re trying to solve and what your non-negotiables are, you can be confident in what you’re asking pfizer viagra online a vendor for. A real partner will be ready and willing to sit down and look at those things with you and help you come up with something that meets your needs.”This type of technology is becoming more widely available, and that’s important because patients are expecting this kind of access and financial experience – physicians and companies that cannot offer it will be hurting, she said.“So take a look at where you’re holding on to time-intensive, traditional processes that could be better handled by automation and technology,” said Bailey.Twitter. @SiwickiHealthITEmail the writer. Bsiwicki@himss.orgHealthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication..

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