Communication can be one of the hardest skills for anyone to master. Yet in healthcare, miscommunication can pose grave challenges to patient safety and care quality. A 2016 malpractice study conducted by CRICO Strategies, a division of the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical...
To boost patient safety and physician efficiency, Seattle Children's Hospital adopted overlapping emergency room shifts for physicians and achieved a dramatic reduction in patient handoffs, recent research shows.
Suicide prevention and ligature risk was a major topic at The Joint Commission (TJC)’s 2019 Executive Briefings this September. Many attendees had questions on risk assessments, physical environment updates, and suicide screening of patients.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
On September 5, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced scoring changes for its IC.02.02.01 standard, which requires facilities to reduce infection risk associated with medical equipment, devices, and supplies. The standard was third on TJC’s recent list of most challenging requirements for...
Violence against ER physicians is pervasive and increasing, research released this October shows.
In a survey conducted for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), a majority of the 3,539 doctors polled said they had been the victims of workplace violence recently. About 62%...
Thanks to fast acting by the pilots, all 155 passengers survived, with few major injuries, in the disaster dubbed “the Miracle on the Hudson.” However, trouble emerged in the aftermath when people tried to find out which hospital their loved ones had been sent to.
