U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a new patient safety initiative, Partnership for Patients, in April.
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee released a new set of guidelines to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). The guidelines, titled Guidelines for the Prevention of...
Editor's note: The following column is written by Columnist Catherine Hinz, MHA, who currently works at PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. Previously, she served as the patient lead at HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, MN, worked for seven years as an ED health unit coordinator, and...
A pediatric patient at Shands Healthcare at the University of Florida, Gainesville made it to the operating room (OR) for a surgery likely to require blood, but upon arrival, no blood or active blood type and screen was available.
Sometimes a patient's declining condition is obvious. But in a busy hospital with patients who are sometimes very ill, recognizing problems isn't so easy. Nurses often have lots of patients and piles of paperwork.
A team approach to reducing infections resulted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) of Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK, receiving the 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for innovation and patient safety and quality at the local level. The award is...
Ten years ago at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, two patient safety culture assessment survey tools were used-one to assess staff members' perception of where the organization stood with respect to safety as a strategic initiative (otherwise known as a...
You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the topic of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The issue tops a list of priorities for many health-related government institutions (e.g., Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, CMS),...
Q: What must be documented in the medical record when a critical test result is reported from the laboratory to an inpatient nurse rather than directly to the physician?
