Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

The germs that should scare your clinic staff

September 24, 2019
Infection Control, Patient Safety

New superbugs are emerging that the CDC and other agencies say can’t be stopped. Here’s what you should do to keep them from overtaking your clinic.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

When parents bring children to appointments, does treatment suffer?

September 24, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Imagine discussing your cancer treatment options before a closely listening 7-year-old. 

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13, Issue 9

It’s a lot like you: The dangerous type of emergency risks!

September 24, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

I know we chatted just last week about emergency management concerns, but once again, there’s more news stuff relating to the management of utility systems (it’s not just...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Primary care docs face obstacles identifying, managing chronic kidney disease

September 17, 2019
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The federal government’s efforts to reduce by 25% the number of people developing end-stage kidney disease in the next decade may be hobbled the lack of knowledge and support tools

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Study: use of high-risk antibiotics leads to increase in C. difficile infections

September 17, 2019
Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The increased prevalence of hospital-associated C. difficile infections is thought to be tied to higher...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13, Issue 9

If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

September 17, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

Kind of a mixed bag this week, though it all fits under the heading of emergency management, so here goes nothing…

A few weeks ago, USA Today ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

Fighting stress and burnout in your clinic

September 16, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

Some of the biggest hazards facing medical staff (and the patients they treat) are lack of rest, long hours, and stressful conditions.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

Too many antibiotics given in pneumonia treatment

September 16, 2019
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Giving patients “too much” ultimately increased their risk of adverse events.

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1, Issue 10

Q&A: ISMP president discusses medication safety

September 16, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Michael R. Cohen, RPH, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, founder and president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses the current state of medication safety. 

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1, Issue 10

Expect renewed focus on post-discharge suicides with new SE categories

September 16, 2019
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Expect even more focus on how hospitals help patients at risk of suicide soon after discharge, now that two suicide-related categories have been shown to make up the top five sentinel events for the first half of 2019.

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