Quality improvement in neurology: Inpatient and emergency care quality measure set: Executive summary

The emergence of inpatient neurologic specialists including neurohospitalists and neurointensivists has led to an increased focus on the quality of neurologic care delivered in the hospital. Each year, there are over 1.5 million nonsurgical neurologic hospital discharges in the United States, making neurology a large inpatient specialty even without accounting for nonadmitted emergency patients.1 National quality metrics in other non-neurologic specialties have focused primarily on inpatient care since hospitals, insurers, professional organizations, and the general public have turned their attention to outcomes achieved during and following hospitalization. Many of these metrics have been applied to neurology patients, despite their not being developed with neurology-specific patient populations or disorders in mind. This gap highlights the need for measures for neurology patients in both inpatient and emergency settings.

Source: Neurology - August 14, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Josephson, S. A., Ferro, J., Cohen, A., Webb, A., Lee, E., Vespa, P. M. Tags: All Health Services Research, Critical care, Delirium, All Practice Management SPECIAL ARTICLE Source Type: research