Editor’s Notebook: Peer Reviewed After All
When asked, I say that PSQH is not peer reviewed, but that’s not entirely accurate. I’ve always looked to members of our Editorial Advisory Board for direction and, increasingly, for peer reviews of manuscripts submitted for publication.
Small Patients, Small Errors, Big Impact
How would you react if you learned that local pediatricians were steering patients away from your hospital’s emergency department and sending them to a competitor because they lacked confidence in the quality of care in your emergency department?
EMRs: Reaching the Holy Grail
Broken or non-performing processes can’t be fixed with an overlay of technology. In fact, that approach only serves to magnify deficiencies, not correct them.
Quality Reporting Through a Data Warehouse
Developing a clinical data warehouse is a key first step toward improving quality reporting functionality, which supports the entire care enterprise.
Heparin: Improving Treatment and Reducing Risk of Harm
The short-acting, reversible anticoagulant heparin is widely used in hospitalized patients to prevent the development or extension of potentially life-threatening blood clots. However, numerous issues make the use of this high-risk agent particularly challenging and error-prone.
Underserved Critical Access Hospitals Hungry for More IT Capability
Facing the same meaningful use deadlines as larger organizations but
with only a few viable vendor options, critical access hospitals are
eager for more IT power, according to a report from KLAS.
Educate, Collaborate, Share and Network on HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Wiki
Many organizations struggle to successfully
deploy clinical decision support, a goal that takes on new
importance since effective clinical decision support is a critical
component of ‘meaningful EMR use,’ as required for stimulus funding
under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
Aetna’s Clinical Policy Bulletins Available on HealthLibrarian, a Semantic Search Engine for Health Knowledge.
Aetna is the first commercial insurance company
to make its clinical guidelines available through the HealthLibrarian
semantic search engine for health data.
University of Miami Center for Patient Safety Uses RTLS Solution to Monitor Hand-Washing Compliance
The University of Miami UM-JMH Center for
Patient Safety has successfully launched a hand hygiene compliance pilot project with the help of two Michigan-based technology
businesses who specialize in health care real-time locating solutions.
More Than Half of Emergency Department Nurses Have Been Physically Assaulted at Work, New Study Finds
Our nation’s emergency departments are places
to receive treatment for injuries, but for thousands of nurses,
emergency departments are the sources of injury. A new study by the
Emergency Nurses Association finds that more than half of
emergency nurses report experiencing physical violence on the job…