pharmaphorum

AUGUST 11, 2022

CMS recently finalized its proposal to include the score in its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program featured in the 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule. What is the Global Malnutrition Composite Score?

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ID Stewardship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

BCPS, BCIDP Article posted 13 December 2024 If you cannot measure it, you cannot determine if you have changedit. Understanding inpatient antimicrobial stewardship metric. In this article an experienced antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist discusses lessons learned from navigating antimicrobial stewardship metrics. Gauthier, Pharm.D.,

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Despite the removal of some of the most controversial proposals, the final rule still contains a variety of significant changes, which become effective on November 19, 2024. Yet another rejection was a proposal requiring a diagnosis on Medicaid prescriptions as a condition for claims payment. The most noteworthy are the following: 1.

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ID Stewardship

APRIL 13, 2023

Goal 2, Objective 3.1 : Expand the number of sources for and quantity of antibiotic resistance surveillance data collected from inpatient healthcare facilities. An important accompanying document for Joint Commission standards are Critical Access Hospital Accreditation Survey Activity Guide, for which the January 2023 guide can be found here.

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Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By incorporating these measures into both inpatient and outpatient quality reporting, CMS is promoting a more equitable health care system and ensuring that interventions are targeted to reduce health disparities. amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/documents/Update_HHS_Disparities_Dept-FY2020.pdf Retrieved from [link] gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/documents/Update_HHS_Disparities_Dept-FY2020.pdf

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 6, 2025

Both guidance documents recommend data management practices for collecting data for use in developing, tuning, and testing an artificial intelligence model and making changes to said model. inpatient hospital, out-patient clinic), date range for the data, and location of the data collection sites (e.g., data acquisition device).

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