Extra Attention to High Risk Patients Saves Money, Improves Outcomes
A California physician network is reducing utilization by providing special attention to patients most at risk for readmission after hospitalization.
Study: Hospital Room Floors May Need More Attention in Infection Control
Want to improve your infection control? Consider your hospital floors.
Telling True Stories Is an ISMP Hallmark. Here’s Why You Should Tell Stories, Too.
Data plays a crucial role in facilitating improvement, but the right story can also have the power to inspire and incite change, including with manufacturers, regulatory agencies, accrediting agencies, and standard-setting organizations.
Service Animals in the ER
Balancing the need to keep medical settings safe and clean with the rights of patients with disabilities and their service animals has challenges.
How to Spot Suicide and Ligature Risks in Your Facility
Last year The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert to hospitals urging them to do a better job of identifying suicidal ideation in patients, this year the accreditor is doubling down, issuing specific warnings in Joint Commission publications and FAQs outlining concerns about ligature, or hanging, risks.
A Call for Standards, Auditing of Hospital Quality Data
Quality data looks good in ads and on hospital and health system websites. A little too good at times.
Evolving Roles in Hospital Leadership
A majority of healthcare organizations were seeking to expand their executive team with new members who could confront the evolving industry’s new challenges.
How to Prevent Maternal Mortality
This article appears in the September 2017 issue of Patient Safety Monitory Journal. More women are dying during pregnancy and childbirth than 15 years ago Maternal mortality is a measure of how many mothers die from pregnancy-related complications while carrying or within 42 days after birth. And in most of the developed world, this number … Continued
Staff Should Be Alert For Mislabeled Drugs
Remind nurses and other clinicians to remain alert for medication errors, including mislabeled products, and empower them to say something if they suspect a problem.
Bringing Innovation To Your Facility
In healthcare, some of the best innovations are deciding what not to do—especially when the current practice has no evidence basis.