PSMF Targets Problem of Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has named postoperative delirium as its 18th patient safety challenge, collecting solutions for organizations to implement to reduce the number of preventable deaths from the condition.
Four Steps to Manage Antibiotics in Acute Care Settings
Appropriate prescribing of antibiotics by healthcare providers is essential to help avoid the development of antibiotic-resistant infections, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls one of the most severe public health problems in the country.
Hospital-Acquired Conditions Drop 13% Over Three Years
The reduction translates into 910,000 fewer HACs, including adverse drug events and healthcare-associated infections, which helped prevent 20,500 hospital deaths and saved $7.7 billion over the three-year span, according to a new analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Regional Cardiac Arrest Centers Increase Odds of Survival
With a patient population drawn from southwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland, the researchers targeted hospitals that received cardiac arrest patients transferred from other hospitals. These “cardiac arrest receiving centers” were viewed as the best facilities locally.
Why Auditing Catheter Dislodgement is a Patient Safety Must
Dislodgement is a significant source of wasteful spending at health systems and hospitals, the author of the survey, Nancy Morneau, RN, PhD, of Hartwell Georgia-based PICC Excellence Inc., told HealthLeaders last week.
Patient Safety Movement Announces Progress Toward Goal, Change in Leadership
Patient Safety Movement plans to continue to aggressively pursue its efforts to reduce and eliminate medical errors through aligning with healthcare leaders, doctors and nurses, patients and families, politicians and medical technology companies.
Joint Commission Updates Anticoagulant NPSG
All the changes are listed in R3 Report 19 and will take effect July 1, 2019. The update applies to all TJC-accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, nursing care centers, and medical centers accredited under the ambulatory healthcare program.
4 Ways to Improve Your Hospital Quality and Safety Rankings
For one hospital in particular, a poor Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade rating in 2014 became a launching pad for improved quality and safety.
Shorter Hospital Stays Don’t Increase Pediatric Readmissions
For adults, length of stay has become a key metric for hospital readmissions, with concerns about the quality of discharge care such as patients discharged before they are ready to leave the hospital.
Report Analyzes Obstetrics-Related Outcomes
The report analyzed more than 470 obstetrics-related closed medical professional liability claims from 2013-2017.