Newsroom & Reports
Lessons Learned: Ambulatory Patient Safety
“Despite the fact that the vast majority of health care takes place in the outpatient, or ambulatory care, setting, efforts to improve safety have mostly focused on the inpatient setting.”1
This was the topic of discussion in August when CHPSO and HQI were privileged to share the arena with Anjana Sharma, MD, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco during a webinar on ambulatory patient safety. Dr. Sharma is a primary care physician and researcher in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, where she works passionately to understand the impact of patient engagement in health care and to identify strategies to improve quality and safety within the ambulatory/community setting.
A Look at Four Mental Disorders Associated With the COVID-19 Epsilon Variant Surge
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic caused myriad adverse health conditions, both physical and mental. The physical effects of the virus included a range of symptoms including, but not limited to fever, cough, shortness of breath, and loss of taste or smell (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022).
Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Membership Report
Use of HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews.
Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Now Available
HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the California Hospital Association (CHA), creates and distributes quarterly dashboards of publicly available quality data for each CHA acute care member hospital. These model dashboards currently provide information on eight measures, and over 80 total measures on the data tab.
Ask CHPSO: Learning More about CHPSOData
Here are a few questions and answers about the new CHPSOData platform.
What is the CHPSOData platform?
CHPSO has partnered with SpeedTrack to create CHPSOData, a new event reporting and analytics platform that will replace the current system administered through NextPlane/Press Ganey. This new solution will provide members with multifactor authentication, streamlined safety event reporting, expanded event categorization, and a new comparative analytics capability.
2021 CHPSO Annual Report Released
The 2021 CHPSO Annual Report has now been released! The report details our activities and provides a look at our most significant work on members’ behalf.
ALERT: Data Show Higher Preeclampsia / Eclampsia Risk Among Pregnant Patients with COVID-19
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.The Hospital Quality Institute’s (HQI) Sentinel Signal Detection System has alerted HQI to notify California member hospitals about significantly higher preeclampsia/eclampsia risk identified among pregnant patients with evidence of concurrent COVID‑19 infection during 2020-2021. Specifically, the below figure shows extended periods from […]
January 2022 CHPSO and HQIP Signal Detection Report
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.This is the third report of findings from HQI’s two sentinel signal detection systems. The systems automatically detect abnormal changes (i.e., signals) in the incidence of diagnosis codes from hospital discharge records in the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP), as well as term frequencies […]
August 2021 CHPSO and HQIP Signal Detection Report
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.This is the second report from HQI’s sentinel signal detection systems. The top alerts for HQIP (July-November 2020) and CHPSO (October-December 2020) are as follows: To dive deeper into the HQIP and CHPSO signals driving these top alerts, read the full report below. More […]
CHPSO Examines Possible Contributing Factors in the Rise of Congenital Syphilis
For the past decade, cases of congenital syphilis — a disease that occurs when a mother with syphilis transmits the infection to her baby during pregnancy — have risen in an unprecedented fashion.