Peer Review: How 2007 Joint Commission Standards Expand Hospital Peer Review
The 2007 medical staff standards of The Joint Commission change the peer review process by strengthening and extending it.
Why Worry About Near Misses?
Imagine you’re a nurse on the Code Team, rushing to respond to a patient who has just gone into cardiac arrest.
Mishap Mansion: A Patient Safety “House of Horrors”
One of the biggest challenges in improving patient safety is engaging staff members to learn and accept new behaviors.
Medical Team Training: Improving Communication in Healthcare
Though studies continue to show that communication failure is a major cause of adverse medical events, we decided to test this relationship by reviewing the experience of the Veterans Health Administration, a large integrated health system.
Building a Culture of Safety
The healthcare industry is held increasingly to a standard of flawless performance in an environment where it can be very difficult to manage human error.
Critical Care Safety Essentials
The critical care setting is one of the most complex environments in a healthcare facility.
Reducing Complexity: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing the Medication Use Process for All Medications
The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Preventing Medication Errors, found that patients experience more than 400,000 adverse drug events (ADEs) annually (IOM, 2006).
AHRQ – Emergency Pharmacists: A New Road to Medication Safety
Preventing medication errors, which account for nearly 20% of adverse events overall and affect about 4% of all hospital stays, has become a high-profile goal among national and international patient safety advocates, healthcare organizations, and healthcare providers (IOM, 2000).
Technology and Quality Patient Information: Who’s Your Daddy?
Try “Googling” yourself. What did you find? Anything that you really wish was not for everyone to see on the Internet?
Going High-Tech to Meet Preparedness Challenge
To confront this array of threats, public health officials find themselves faced with the daunting task of adapting old disaster response policies to newly emerging dangers. After the events of September 11, 2001, the state of North Carolina began to realize that the old ways simply wouldn’t work.