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The overuse, underuse, or misuse of services that deviates from established care standards.
What is unwarranted clinical variation?
Involves strategies to limit unwarranted variation in clinical practice and often involves ordered sets, clinical guidelines, or clinical pathways to ensure the right intervention, in the right care setting, for the right patient, at the right time.
What is Care Variation Reduction (CVR)?
A series of related care standards expected across a clinical episode for a given condition or procedure.
What are care pathways?
An expected clinical practice, as defined by an organization; referred to as protocols, guidelines, or practices.
What are care standards?
HEOR stands for.
What is Health Economics Outcomes Research?
A one year cost savings from a single formulary restriction standardization at Johns Hopkins Health and a 3-year forumulary standardization across 23 hospitals at Mercy Health, resulted in a cost savings of ___ and ___ respectively.
What is $2M and $25M?
Care variation reducuction is a key focus area for providers across sites of care. They are not limited to a specific service line or part of the health system organization. The potential for CVR strategies can reduce costs, and improve quality ____.
What is care?
BBC stands for.
What is British Broadcasting Corporation?
CVR requires time and resource investment across the health system, and providers must have strong ___ to help prioritize their CVR efforts and must be able to engage multidisciplinary stakeholders across the organization to design and integrate new care standards and guidelines.
What is data?
The number of states the AT goes through.
The first president to be inaugurated in D.C.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
To improve standards, one of the first steps in the process, is the "___".
What is the "how"?
The executive leaders, ______, technology and IT, and hospital operations are the four pillars of a multidisciplinary group for successful implementation.
Who are the frontline clinicians?
The state with the longest U.S. coastline.
What is Alaska? (6,640 miles which is more than all of the other states combined).
The Green Mountain State.
A tool for mitigating care variation.
What are care pathways?
What is 26?
The current PM of England (succeeding Theresa May).
Who is Boris Johnson?
When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, how many NBA Championships did he win?
What are 6?
According to the UN, there are this many countries in Africa.
There are over 200 zip codes in this city.
What is New York City? Some buildings are even large enough to have their own (The Empire State, Chrysler, and MetLife).
What are almonds?
The optimal level of adherence to care standards and protocols.
What is 70-90%?
These mountains stretch from West Virginia to Georgia.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
The number of states the PCT crosses through.
What are three states?