Becker's ASC

QuantiaMD offers presentations to improve patient safety practices: 5 key points

QuantiaMD, the Physician Engagement Platform, released a report that looked into improving safety patient practices among physicians. The company led presentations via its web and mobile communities, ...
Business Wire

StatLock Improves Patient Safety and Nurse Productivity, Says Patient Safety Presentation

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004--StatLock catheter securement devices significantly improved patient safety and nursing productivity at a large Veteran's Administration hospital system. That ...
STAT

RaDonda Vaught, nurse who accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety

CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse who was criminally prosecuted for accidentally killing a patient by injecting the wrong ...
Medicine Buffalo

Patient safety will improve with new tools for better data collection

As many as a third of patients admitted to the United States’ best hospitals have experienced harm as part of their care. That astounding 2005 statistic is often cited to underscore the alarming need ...

Michigan hospitals are falling behind in patient safety, survey finds

A new survey released overnight Thursday shows that hospitals across Michigan are falling behind in patient safety.

Aurora Health Care leads Wisconsin in patient safety excellence

Twice a year, Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades are assigned to nearly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals nationwide.
Becker's ASC

“My center looks just fine” — Or does it? Key thoughts on ASC presentation

At three recent, but different, accreditation/Medicare surveys surveyors spent a great deal of their time discussing between themselves and with the administrator. In fact at two centers the negative ...
Health Affairs

New Patient Safety Effort Uses Aviation Industry Model

A public-private alliance known as the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) has greatly improved aviation safety. A similar alliance among health care stakeholders could reduce medication and device ...
JSTOR Daily

Enhanced Morbidity and Mortality Meeting and Patient Safety Education for Specialty Trainees

Introduction: Mortality and morbidity (M&M) meetings present a forum to discuss and review in-hospital deaths and complications to improve patient care. However, it remains an untapped resource to ...
usace.army.mil

Patient Safety: Eliminating Mistaken Identity

FT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - With the start of a New Year, many people are talking about New Year resolutions and while few people include resolutions related to prevention of identity theft to their list, ...
Toronto Star

Patient safety in hospitals slow to improve: followup report

Eleven years after the release of an eye-popping study showing 185,000 Canadian patients suffer unintended harm while in hospital, a followup report reveals progress on improving patient safety has ...
The Star Press

73 Indiana hospitals were graded for patient safety. Here's how IU Health Ball Memorial scored

Each hospital's grade is solely based on patient safety and overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable ...