Quality & Errors

The most recent round of administrative penalties for hospital deficiencies constituting immediate jeopardy includes two patient falls resulting...Read More »

The latest round of scores that measure rates of errors and infections, indicators of safe practices, shows an increase in the number of hospitals...Read More »

Researchers estimate that each additional nurse-hour per patient day is associated with 10% lower odds of receiving penalties under The Patient...Read More »

Everyone in healthcare knows about the struggles of medication reconciliation and its impact on patient safety and care. The Joint Commission...Read More »

A new collaborative is bringing the meaningful use of checklists to the ambulatory and outpatient setting. The goal is to...Read More »

The hospital is a large, multifaceted organism with thousands of ­moving parts within dozens of units that are often separated by...Read More »

As of March 2013, more than 85% of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (...Read More »

Each hospital is required to have a formal process to evaluate whether a drug should be added to the formulary. This process should include...Read More »

In March 2013, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) began presenting the results of its random audits for HIPAA and Health Information Technology for...Read More »

California's latest round of penalties for hospital blunders that resulted in patient harm or death includes a wrong-site surgery, feeding errors...Read More »