have drawn attention to substantial variations in care that exist both nationally and within local communities.1 Working to standardize clinical practices offers healthcare providers the opportunity to ensure the highest quality of care is delivered to all patients.
How can an organization reduce variation in care?
Zynx Health solutions help organizations build standardized, evidence-based order sets, plans of care, guidelines, pathways, reminders, and alerts.
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Gregory Dorn, MD, MPH is the general manager of Zynx Health and has presented on quality improvement and reducing variation in care.
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What are the challenges to adoption of standardized care practices?
For clinicians to adopt standardized care practices, they must trust in the value of the suggested practices. Zynx clinicians use an objective, timely, and rigorous review of the peer-reviewed literature in developing evidence-based clinical summaries. This rigorous methodology helps build consensus for the development of organizational best practices. Using an outside vendor such as Zynx helps with the buy-in for clinical quality improvement and disease management programs.
What is the impact of standardization of care?
Using Zynx solutions, Adventist Health System built and implemented an evidence-based pathway for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). For patients on the pathway, mortality decreased from 10% to 7%. Adopting the pathway also resulted in decreased morbidity and improved process-of-care measures.2
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"Centura Health uses Zynx in all of our eleven acute care facilities. The ability to create order sets rapidly is a wonderful feature. It has reduced the time required to create order sets from months to hours."
Beryl Vallejo, MD, Vice President, Quality and Outcomes Management, Centura Health |