True or False: Once a hospital has developed its list of sound-alike/look-alike drugs, the list should be reviewed every three years, along with other hospital policies.
The Joint Commission’s latest Sentinel Event Alert targets an issue that has been oft-discussed in recent years: healthcare worker fatigue and patient safety.
As the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, medical errors just don't seem to be going away. Many healthcare professionals agree that reporting such errors is the only way to learn from them and prevent them in the future. But although most medical centers have systems in place...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 1
Value-based purchasing (VBP) has long been on the minds of many healthcare professionals. Slowly but surely, VBP has embedded itself in healthcare, including, of course, Medicare reimbursement.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 1
Most hospitals have created some sort of campaign to raise levels of hand hygiene compliance-from creating signs and uploading sing-along viral videos to deploying "secret shoppers" around the nation to sneakily observe who may or may not be washing their hands.
Oncology clinics traditionally house some of the most vulnerable patients when it comes to contracting dangerous infections, further compounding the already debilitating effects of cancer treatments like chemotherapy. Because of this, it's doubly important that oncology clinics...
