Measuring quality at Brigham and Women’s
April 22, 2020
With special guest Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, the director of CDI at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a large academic medical center affiliated with Harvard Medical school in Boston, and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts.
Resources mentioned during the show:
- U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 Best Hospital and Conditions Ratings
- A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data
In the News links:
- “News: Medicare Advantage plans get 1.66% payment increase in 2021” from CDI Strategies
- “Pandemic delays federal probe into Medicare Advantage health plans” from Kaiser Health News
ACDIS update links: