Mobilizing ICU Patients May Not Affect Risk of Adverse Events, Death
Mobilizing patients who required mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) was associated with a less than 3% risk of adverse events such as falls, desaturation, and hemodynamic instability, a systematic review and meta-analysis found. Compared with usual care, very-low-certainty evidence showed that mobilization did not lead to adverse events (risk ratio [RR] 1.09, […]
CMS Focusing on Better Aligning Quality Measures, Adding New ACO Models
Are you exasperated by all the different quality measures you’re required to report? One official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) knows exactly how you feel. “I led care transformation at a health system before coming into this role, and we had this huge spreadsheet of the 500 different metrics from all […]
Serious Complications Uncommon After Primary Lens Implantation in Children
A third of intraocular lens (IOL) implants for nontraumatic glaucoma in children required reoperation for visual axis opacification (VAO) within 5 years, most often in eyes that did not have anterior vitrectomy, a large cohort study showed. Overall, 32% of 609 eyes developed VAO requiring reoperation after primary IOL implantation. The reoperation rate for VAO […]
Should Board Certification Organizations Have to Meet Particular Standards?
Should organizations that bestow board certifications be required to meet particular standards? That was one of the questions debated by members of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates at its meeting this week. The delegates discussed on Tuesday a resolution that would amend AMA policy to say that board certification programs “must first […]
Colorado to Collect Providers’ Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity Data
Clinicians in Colorado will soon be asked — though not required — to give the state demographic information that includes their ethnicity and sexual orientation as part of an effort to build more culturally diverse provider networks. Under a rule that took effect on March 2, Colorado Options — the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange […]