True or False: One of the frequently occurring patient errors has to do with caregivers selecting either the wrong patient or the wrong treatment, care, or service. This is behind the rationale prompting the NPSG requiring the use of two patient identifiers.
In an effort to ensure more reporting of adverse events, Minister for Health James Reilly is considering a number of proposals that would impose stiff sanctions if providers fail to inform patients of medical errors,...
AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d like to see this year.
The Joint Commission has published its prepublication standards for telemedicine (LD.04.03.09 and MS.13.01.01) to their website here. If this link doesn’t work, you can also copy and paste the URL below into your web...
AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d like to see this year.
In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) processes in detail.
