Patient Safety Monitor Journal
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18
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2

What can you really do about readmission rates?

February 16, 2026
Quality & Errors
Editor’s note: Janet Spiegel, MS, is a management consultant who has worked with several payer and provider organizations. She is currently a Lean senior strategic performance advisor at Martin’s Poin...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
28
Issue
2

Submitting eCQMs in 2017

February 16, 2026
Quality & Errors
When it comes to healthcare quality improvement, electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) are the way of the future. Or at least that’s what many are betting on. This year, Joint Commission-a...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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0
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0

Family-centered ICUs improve outcomes

February 16, 2026
Quality & Errors
To improve medical outcomes in intensive care units, some hospitals are attempting to make units more accessible for patients’ family and caregivers. Allowing patients to have more access to the...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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0
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0

CMS extends eCQM reporting deadline

February 16, 2026
Quality & Errors
In a new blog post, CMS announced that it was extending its electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) submissions to March 13, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. PST. This gives facilities and extra 13 days to get t...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
18
Issue
1

Q&A: The benefits of patient engagement

February 16, 2026
Quality & Errors
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited Q&A with Craig Deao, MHA, senior leader at Studer Group, on the role of patient engagement in care quality. PSMJ: How big a role does patien...
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