The Joint Commission has put forth a proposed National Patient Safety Goal for 2014 addressing alarm management in hospitals and critical access hospitals. According to the official announcement, these proposed changes will address compromised safety as a result of staff overwhelmed and...
Discharge planning and follow-up phone calls are never easy. It's a perennial challenge for healthcare organizations as each tries to find its own pattern or process to maximize the benefits of the calls while minimizing the stress on patients and staff.
In 2011, the 311-bed Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., was beginning to use its Packard Quality Management System as a methodology for improvement, empowering employees to identify and solve routine work problems, and design and implement better...
The Joint Commission has proposed a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for 2014 related to the management of alarms. Field review ended February 26.
Healthcare has come a long way in identifying safety issues-even the possibility of safety issues-but as many quality directors and frontline staff know, identifying is not solving.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4