Publications by authors named "Julia L Skapik"
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- * The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services modified guidelines to allow for more telehealth visits by eliminating geographic restrictions and enhancing reimbursements, enabling health centers to continue providing care.
- * Analysis of data from 245 health centers revealed a 25% decrease in weekly telehealth visits from June to November 2020, with rural and Southern health centers reporting the lowest usage, highlighting the need to maintain and grow telehealth services as the pandemic persists.
Background: Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) seek to quantify the adherence of health care to evidence-based standards. This requires a high level of consistency to reduce the effort of data collection and ensure comparisons are valid. Yet, there is considerable variability in local data capture, in the use of data standards and in implemented documentation processes, so organizations struggle to implement quality measures and extract data reliably for comparison across patients, providers, and systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Adverse events impose a great burden on patients and the health care system, but not enough is known about how to address incidents involving pediatric patients. This study examined the demographic factors, types of events, contributing system factors, and harm associated with incidents that occur in pediatric intensive care units.
Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of 2 years of data on all pediatric safety incidents and near misses reported to the voluntary provider-recorded Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System in regards to harm and contributing factors.