September 9, 2011
Despite extensive ongoing quality improvement (QI) efforts, substantial variation existed in hospital standardized mortality ratios (HSMRs) across hospitals in Kaiser Permanente, an integrated health care delivery system. In 2008, Kaiser Permanente developed an efficient and effective method for investigating hospital-level mortality to identify patterns of potential harm.
The mortality review process, which included quantitative data from structured chart abstraction and qualitative description of harm events, efficiently gathered important information on patterns of mortality that was not otherwise available, enabling hospitals to identify trends and focus improvement efforts.
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April 29, 2011
“Regulated Nurses: Canadian Trends, 2005 to 2009 draws on data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s Nursing Database, which covers the three regulated nursing professions in Canada: registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs). This report presents five-year workforce trends across Canada, across regulated nursing professions and across a variety of demographic, education, mobility and employment characteristics, in order to inform health human resource planning in Canada.”
The report covers the following broad areas of Canadian nursing:
- Regulated Nursing Workforce Continues to Grow;
- Regulated Nursing Workforce Across Age Groups;
- Mobility Trends of Regulated Nursing Graduates;
- Registered Nurses;
- Licensed Practical Nurses;
- Registered Psychiatric Nurses.
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