Health professionals in Hartford, Conn., have created a program for improving patient safety in nursing homes through reduction of human error, according to a report from The Courant. The program is ...
Multi-disciplinary patient blood management (PBM) programs — which go beyond blood bank projects to manage and preserve a patient’s own blood — can improve health outcomes, reduce the cost of care and ...
Does your compliance program incorporate quality and patient safety issues? Or, are you treating the two areas as separate and distinct departments? The OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance ...
In the aftermath of the transplant mismatch an exhaustive review of patient safety literature was completed; a re-evaluation of the organization's compliance with the IOM recommendations was carried ...
A patient safety initiative in Ohio that has produced significant reductions in infections and costs has received the recognition of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, ...
Patients’ misperceptions of statins and physicians’ limited knowledge of a hypercholesterolemia safety-net program warrant additional interventions to reduce barriers and improve care. Objectives: To ...
In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic ...
Aurora Dialysis, located in Grand Forks, ND was recently awarded the 5-Diamond Patient Safety Program award and will receive special recognition at Network 11's Annual Meeting, October 2012, in ...
The Leapfrog Group has given Augusta Health an “A” Hospital Safety Grade for fall 2023. The national nonprofit watchdog sets standards for excellence in patient ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services do not reimburse fall-related costs, so falls represent a significant cost burden for hospitals. In a new study at two health systems, the average total ...
A key premise behind the development of the Pediatric Safety Program was that front-line staff and clinical leaders could indeed enhance patient safety. They would need both the knowledge and the ...
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