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RI hospitals adopting surgical safety process
Never events have always been a huge concern, but with CMS and other payers refusing to cover never-event surgeries, hospitals have even more reason to eliminate them. Now, Rhode Island hospitals are... Read more...
Study: Surgical safety checklists cut complications, death rates
A new research report has concluded that after eight hospitals in eight countries implemented surgical safety checklists, they saw improved outcomes on several levels, with the number of... Read more...
Cancer rates around the world on the rise
About a month ago we shared the news that cancer rates in the U.S. were finally dropping. Now the bad news: worldwide, the rates are actually rising. According to a new report from the World Health... Read more...
Narrowing health disparities world-wide
We knew it already but it's good to get the hard numbers; people get different healthcare, and have different life expectancies, due to the differing levels of healthcare they receive in different... Read more...
WHO introduces surgical checklist
The World Health Organization has introduced a surgical checklist designed to make sure that surgeons and operating teams follow safe pre- and post-surgical processes consistently, as well as meeting... Read more...
RI passes bill for patient safety committee, error-tracking system
Rhode Island lawmakers have passed legislation that would create a database for voluntary tracking of medical errors by healthcare providers and insurers. The bill, which still requires the... Read more...
The Joint Commission releases '08 safety goals
The Joint Commission announced its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals yesterday. Some major changes include a new requirement to cut the risks of patient harm associated with the use of anticoagulants, and is applicable to hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery centers, home care and long term care facilities.
The Joint Commission also established a new goal and requirement that calls for providers to recognize and respond to unexpected …
... Read more...Press Release: WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Releases Nine Life-Saving Patient Safety Solutions
Press Release: WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Releases Nine Life-Saving Patient Safety Solutions
... Read more...Joint Commission, WHO fight care errors
Working with the Joint Commission, the World Health Organization has begun promoting a list of nine solutions designed to prevent care errors prevalent around the world. The solutions include methods for avoiding errors in administering look-alike, sound alike drugs; assuring correct patient identification; streamlining patient hand-over communications; hand hygiene; and needle reuse and injection safety. For example, the WHO/Joint Commission suggests several methods for verifying patient …
... Read more...JCAHO seeks input on patient safety goals
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released a list of draft patient safety goals and requirements that may be included in the group's 2008 standards. Clinical goals include reducing post-operative risk for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, preventing catheter misconnections and reducing the likelihood of harm from anticoagulation therapy. On the administrative level, JCAHO's targets include preventing harm caused by worker fatigue. Among …
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