Reporting Quality Measures One of the quality measures reported by hospitals to

Reporting Quality Measures
One of the quality measures reported by hospitals to the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is published on the
Hospital Compare website is statistics on “surgery patients who were given
an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour of surgery) to help prevent
infection.” Answer the following questions to reflect on your understanding
of this quality measure addressing the following:
Why is
it clinically important for patients to receive antibiotics within one
hour of surgery?
In
clinical documentation what would be reviewed to report on hospital
performance of this quality measure or which portion of the record would
provide the most accurate information to confirm the administration of
antibiotics and its time?
If the
hospital consistently scores low on this measure, what does this indicate?
If a
hospital is scoring low on this quality measure, which clinical quality
management process could be used to help the hospital understand why the
performance is low?
Your initial post comprising a minimum of 550 words should
have at least 3 peer-reviewed references.
Source: Medicare.gov, Hospital Compare. (n.d.).
Measures and current data collection periods. Retrieved from
https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Data-Updated.html