This fall, The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare will release its Targeted Solutions Tool™ addressing wrong-site surgery. The tool is part of the Center's Targeted Solutions series and is available to any organization accredited or certified by The Joint...
True or False: One of the frequently occurring patient errors has to do with caregivers selecting either the wrong patient or the wrong treatment, care, or service. This is behind the rationale prompting the NPSG requiring the use of two patient identifiers.
Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are a big step up, after all: Instead of a paper chart that needs to be tracked down,...
Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are a big step up, after all: Instead of a paper chart that needs to be tracked down,...
Because a new class of medical school graduates begins their residencies in July, the month has a reputation for having more errors and higher mortality rates.
A culture of safety can be an elusive concept, making it difficult to create and even harder to sustain. That's why one region of VHA, Inc., is helping to lead its hospitals toward that goal one step at a time.
According to Joint Commission standards and federal law, patients have the right to effective communication, including access to interpretation and translation services. It's easy to understand why. Effective communication with a patient is a critical component of patient safety, education, and...
Missed diagnoses in the ED are often considered to be unfortunate errors on the physician's part-the symptoms just weren't obvious or clear enough and the underlying cause was simply missed. However, a new review of malpractice data from EDs suggests that poor communication...
