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Issue 7, February 17, 2016

• CMS Announces Standardized Quality Measures

  CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) released seven quality measures yesterday...

• Patient Safety Experts Highlight Key Concerns for 2016

  For many healthcare facilities, a new year means new goals. As we say goodbye to 2015, patient...

• Interoperability in the Perioperative Suite: Promise and Realty

  In recent years, hospitals have made great strides in the adoption of electronic health records...

• Personal Mobile Device Policies in Surgical Suites

  Human factors studies indicate that distractions and multitasking increase the likelihood of error...

Issue 6, February 10, 2016

• Patient Safety Roundup: CMS Penalizes 758 Hospitals for Patient Safety Infractions

  The CMS has fined 758 hospitals across the country for high rates of patient safety incidents...

• PSQH Applies for BPA Worldwide Business Publication Membership

  Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (www.psqh.com) has applied for business publication...

• MITSS Presents Annual HOPE Award to Jeanine Thomas

  MITSS presented Jeanine Thomas, president of the MRSA Survivors Network, with this year's HOPE...

• Using Big Data Meaningfully to Improve Quality and Safety

  It’s rare to attend a conference on quality, safety, or informatics without feeling the...

• Crossing the Medication Safety Chasm

  Anesthesiologists have long played a role in advancing medication safety. More than 30 years ago...

Issue 5, February 3, 2016

• Prescriber Training in Medication Management Improves CMS Quality Metrics

  Medication management learning-based training helped Quality Independent Physicians (QIP), an...

• New Tool Simplifies the Process of Patient Safety Improvement

  A new tool endorsed by the National Patient Safety Foundation aims to streamline patient safety and...

• Surgical Residents’ Shift Length Not a Factor in Patient Safety

  Concern that duty hour restrictions inhibit the ability of surgical residents to care for patients...

• Study: Poor Communication Leads to Malpractice, Death

  Poor communication in healthcare has tangible, measurable effects. A new study released...

Issue 4, January 27, 2016

• Overcoming Barriers on the Way to Evidence-Based Practice

  Introducing change to practice in healthcare is not easy. While it is well established that...

• JAMA: Nurses Key to Surviving Surgery

  A study released in The Journal of the American Medical Association has found that surgical...

• CDC’s Core Elements of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

  Just over a year after President Barack Obama issued an executive order calling for federal...

• Nominations Open for Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement

  EngagingPatients.org, an online community dedicated to sharing best practices in patient and...

• Solutions Spotlight: Beyond Root Cause Analysis: Building an Effective Program

  Serious events happen every day in hospitals, physician practices, clinics, and care...

Issue 3, January 20, 2016

• Editor’s Note

  As promised, we’ve combined the former weekly Patient Safety Monitor Insider and the monthly...

• FDA Releases Cybersecurity Recommendations for Medical Device Manufacturers

  Cybersecurity threats to medical devices are a growing concern. The FDA took a proactive step last...

• Olympus recalls duodenoscopes, FDA approves new model

  Olympus Corp., the largest seller of duodenoscopes in the U.S. recalled all of its TJF-Q180V model...

• C. diff Infection Raises Hospital Costs by 40% per Case

  It can be difficult to quantify the exact economic burden of C. diff on hospitals and the health...

• AHRQ Releases New Tool to Reduce CAUTI

  Building on its Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), the U.S. Department of Health and...

Issue 2, January 13, 2016

• FREE Tool: Evaluate staff for emergency preparedness

  Patient care permits little room for healthcare providers to be anything but on their toes. And in...

• USP updates target patient safety concerns within compounding pharmaceuticals

  Five years after pharmaceutical experts began reviewing changes to sterile preparation requirements...

• Joint Commission and CDC team up on ambulatory infection prevention

  In November, The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined...

Issue 1, January 6, 2016

• Editor's Note: Exciting changes in the new year

  Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the holidays! Last fall, we welcomed Patient Safety and Quality...

• EHR usability weaknesses have clear patient safety implications

  Electronic health records may represent the future of medicine, but as of now, the technology is...

• Blog Excerpt: Joint Commission releases revisions to Patient Safety Systems Chapter

  The Joint Commission released revisions to its Patient Safety Systems chapter for 2016.

• Greater openness among clinicians is needed to drive improvement in patient safety

  Earlier this year, the National Patient Safety Foundation?s Lucian Leape Institute released a...

Issue 9, March 2, 2016

• Bribery on Two Continents: Olympus Corp., to Pay $646 Million Settlement

  On March 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Olympus Corp. with paying millions of dollars...

Issue 8, February 24, 2016

• Editor’s Notebook: The Measurement Challenge

  Measurement is central to current discussions about the state of patient safety, as well as federal...

• AHRQ Releases New Tool to Reduce CAUTI

  Building on its Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), the U.S. Department of Health and...

• FDA: Duodenoscopes From Three Major Companies Now Safe to Use with Updated Instructions

  On February 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that reprocessing instructions for...

• Nurse Renewal Rooms Benefit Patients, Too

  Hoping to counter stress and compassion fatigue, one hospital has created private spaces for its...