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External Peer Review: When and How
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Document Type: White Papers
Discover how you can use external peer review to acquire fair, efficient, and useful information to evaluate and improve physician performance. Authored by Robert J. Marder, MD, CMSL, Vice President, The Greeley Company, this white paper provides key strategies to help your organization develop clear, practical policies and processes for obtaining and using EPR evaluations.
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Monitors (Monitoring of Care) Required for TJC and CMS, Summary Indicator List
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Document Type: Tools
The monitoring of care and services is a fundamental strategy employed by the Joint Commission, CMS and other regulatory agencies. Unfortunately, these requirements are not in one place nor are they mutually exclusive. We have prepared a summary of required indicators you may find useful. It lists the categories of monitoring found in the CMS conditions of participation and two from Joint Commission (flow and staffing effectiveness) then cross references with requirements for specific indicators (mostly from Joint Commission).
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Monitors (Monitoring of Care), Review for Required Monitors
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Document Type: Tools
Review for Required Monitors
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Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement Documents Overview
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Document Type: Tools
This overview document provides a quality assessment/performance improvement program plan, a QAPI indicator list (2008), a reporting schedule, a generic departmental breakdown, and a flow diagram. These documents represent a core QAPI program.
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Quality Assessment-Performance Improvement Program
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Document Type: Policies and Procedures
QAPI core plan - supplemental documents required.
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Quality Assessment-Performance Improvement Program - Flow and Reporting Structure Diagram
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Document Type: Tools
Flow of information is reflected in the flow diagram.
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Quality Assessment-Performance Improvement Program - Indicators (2008)
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Document Type: Tools
Indicator list to be individualized to a specific facility's population and service group.
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