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Article: Future Quality Measures Must Consider Realities of Emergency Departments, Emergency Physicians Say; Current Hospital Quality Measures are Improving Patient Care.
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- April 19, 2005
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WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Current hospital quality measures, such as providing aspirin within four hours of arrival for heart attack patients, are improving patient care, according to three-fourths of more than 1,000 emergency physicians who responded to a new survey released today by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) during its Leadership and Advocacy Conference being held here.
As part of an effort to improve patient care while containing costs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been implementing a series of pay-for-performance projects. The measures were initially voluntary, but are now required, and CMS ...