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Top Boston teaching hospitals reveal RFIs

Quality Improvement Monitor, April 27, 2007

Five large Boston teaching hospitals inspected by The Joint Commission in the past eight months have disclosed the problems discovered during their unannounced surveys, according to the Boston Globe.

Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals and Boston Medical Center all were cited for failing to ask patients their list of medications upon admission, the Globe reported. Other hospitals disclosing information from The Joint Commission surveys were Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital.

At Massachusetts General, inspectors found nine instances in which doctors and nurses inserting intravenous tubing or performing other procedures either did not take a "time out" to verify a patient's identity and procedure, or did not document that they had, the paper said. The Brigham and Boston Medical Center said they need to improve the way nurses and doctors handle "critical test results." All of the hospitals have been or will be reaccredited and have made improvements or have plans in place to improve, the Globe said.

For more information, go here http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/21/five_hospitals_release_data_on_inspections/

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