Quality & Patient Safety Articles by Topic: Quality Improvement
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2014
Improving patient handoffs has long been on the radar of hospitals and health systems. As...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2014
More than 2,500 general hospitals in the United States received Hospital Safety Scores, and...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2014
In case hospitals weren’t devoting enough attention to preventing central...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2014
More than 2,500 general hospitals in the United States received Hospital Safety Scores, and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, March 27, 2013
A group of interdisciplinary research teams conducted 40 studies that investigate how nurses...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, October 31, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report of inspections conducted at the New...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 25, 2012
The Obama administration has proposed a consumer reporting system that will allow patients to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 34, August 21, 2012
Although two recent studies support the argument for the existence of a “weekend...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 32, August 7, 2012
All medical procedures come with some degree of risk, and one doesn’t need to look very far...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 24, 2012
An estimated 60% of adverse events occurred at hospitals in states with reporting systems, yet only...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 17, 2012
Consumers, payers, and providers have yet another tool to rank hospital quality with the updated...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, June 27, 2012
The Joint Commission, state agencies, and others are demanding solid data proving increased patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 25, June 20, 2012
More and more, hospitals are being publicly rated by the patient. Plenty of websites cater to this...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 25, June 20, 2012
Quality Improvement for Nurse Managers: Engage Staff and Improve Patient Outcomes clearly outlines...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 6, 2012
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 21, May 23, 2012
Patients' perceived quality of care varied greatly from the actual quality of care as defined by...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 21, May 23, 2012
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 20, May 16, 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released recommendations that ask manufacturers of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 11, 2012
Sometimes quality can be a bit like a game of whack-a-mole. As you try to improve in one area...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 21, 2012
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has looked at CMS and found its system of hospital oversight...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 14, 2012
A new column in the New York Times today dives into the idea of using common practices and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 15, 2012
Medicare identified many teaching hospitals across the country as having a substantially higher...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 15, 2012
Top healthcare experts present their analysis of frequently-asked questions on National Patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 7, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under the Affordable Care Act, announced...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 16, 2011
A new study found that by Memphis-based Qsource showed that the patients with the most repeat...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 19, 2011
The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a second edition of its Respectful...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 14, 2011
A new study by University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill found that adopting inexpensive...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
Heart attack patients have a higher risk of dying within a year if the closest ED is on diversion...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Crico/RMF Strategies, whose parent company insures hospitals affiliated with Harvard University, is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 13, 2011
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, March 30, 2011
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has revamped their Patient Safety Network website...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 23, 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the National Strategy for Quality Improvement...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
A woman who receives one abdominal-pelvic CT scan has a one in 250 chance of getting cancer. This...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
The checklist Peter Pronovost, MD, professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
A new report published in the January 28, 2011 issue of British Medical Journal has found that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 5, 2011
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a new free white paper on managing...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 3, 2010
After two children died as a result of medication errors, Seattle Children's Hospital has launched...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 15, 2010
Dartmouth College has launched a new, 18-month master's degree program to teach safety...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Prior to 2005, the catheterization lab at Mercy Des Moines (IA)–Mercy Heart Hospital (MDM...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
I was always certain that my career in patient safety would be in the delivery sector, in health...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Q. What are some suggested measures we can take to prevent pressure ulcers in the operating room...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 34, August 25, 2010
In late July, The Joint Commission released an update to its popular "Speak Up" campaign...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 33, August 18, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has updated its State Snapshots with data from 2009...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 32, August 11, 2010
Quality Improvement for Nurse Managers: Engage Staff and Improve Patient Outcomes is a book and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
Students at medical schools across the country are being given the opportunity to take elective...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
The American Hospital Association and National Patient Safety Foundation have announced the 30...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
The NPSGs are complex. Let us simplify.
Top healthcare experts present their analysis of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
All you need to take advantage of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
The concept of a just culture is relatively new to the healthcare industry and has become a...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Until 2007, nurses at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis relied on traditional shift...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 28, 2010
Heart attack death rates are on the decline at hospitals nationwide, according to a new report card...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 28, 2010
A report from the Commonwealth Fund released in late June shows that U.S. healthcare ranks last or...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
In a Q & A published Monday with The Boston Globe, Maureen Bisognano, the new president and CEO...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
The American Medical Association (AMA) released two reports this week concerning quality and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project has...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
Give your patients a voice in the quality of their care
Join HCPro on Thursday, August 19, at 1...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 28, July 14, 2010
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday its Final Rule on Meaningful...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 28, July 14, 2010
More and more hospitals are turning to "Lean" thinking to cut waste, improve efficiency...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 28, July 14, 2010
Members of Patient Safety Monitor have access to the tools library, an archive of a number of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 27, July 7, 2010
A study published in the recent issue of Pediatrics finds that 44% of pediatric hospitalists...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
The July issue contains the following stories:
Maryland program provides road map for...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Collecting core measures data is a part of everyday life at most healthcare facilities, affecting...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Editor’s note: The following column explores patient safety from the perspective of a...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Q. What is a good way to measure whether a certain process is under control—that is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 16, 2010
Patient navigators may be coming soon to your hospital—if your hospital doesn't already use...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 9, 2010
Last Friday the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced it had created a new...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 2, 2010
The June issue of Briefings on Patient Safety has been posted to Patient Safety Monitor. This...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 2, 2010
Hospitals are noisy places, and the increase in technology-based care has only added to the volume...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 2, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking for the help from clinicians in calling out unsafe...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about the ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program and how it has an effect...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Engaged nurses who feel like they work in an organization that values their efforts and opinions...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
By nature, I am an outgoing person. In fact, I’ve maxed out the sociability and extrovert...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 21, May 26, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published a series of three guides to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 20, May 19, 2010
Two surgical intensive care units implemented the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 18, May 5, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a snapshot of the nation’s...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Staff members are often trained to report a potential medical error, or near-miss event. However...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Is there a gold standard for the definition of a fall?
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
Did you know that Hawaii requires infection control programs to have a system for reporting...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
As part of legislation passed in 2009, all hospitals must be achieving "meaningful use"...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
A new analysis from the British Medical Journal says that using mortality rates as a measure of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 16, April 21, 2010
A recent study authored by renowned nurse investigator Linda Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN, found that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 14, 2010
The release of the 2009 Leapfrog Hospital Survey finds that fewer than 50% of hospitals are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 14, 2010
The National Quality Forum released its 2010 list of Safe Practices for Better Healthcare, a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 7, 2010
HealthGrades has released the results of its 7th annual “Patient Safety in American...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 7, 2010
The April issue of Briefings on Patient Safety has been posted to the Patient Safety Monitor. This...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about human factors engineering, suicide risk assessment, rapid...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Over the past five years, rapid response teams (RRT) have been brought to the forefront of American...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, March 31, 2010
Donald M. Berwick, MD, will soon be nominated to be the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 24, 2010
Hospitals in upstate New York have taken advantage of quality incentives provided by Excellus...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation released a report last week...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
A 2007 law requiring that California hospitals report on 28 "never events" has helped...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
Hospitals are more often considering their employed caregiver's well-being after a medical error...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 9, March 3, 2010
A study from Mathematica Policy Research, a non-partisan survey team, has found that trained...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about medical interpreter certification, patient safety awareness...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
One of the most vital parts of providing adequate healthcare is the exchange of information between...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Since 2002, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has sponsored Patient Safety Awareness...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
As we move further into 2010, I’m excited about the opportunities for growth and improvement...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Q: How should our organization meet compliance with educating patients and their families on...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
The National Quality Forum (NQF) released a set of 70 measures in January that guide the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 24, 2010
Our contest last summer was such at hit that we've decided to launch a new contest in honor of the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 6, February 10, 2010
Although healthcare reform seems to have hit a standstill, there are many quality improvement...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was required by the Patient Safety and Quality...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
Even though much progress has been made since the first studies showing that physicians apologizing...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Hospitals need to realize that the healthcare industry is forever linked with the macroeconomics of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
This issue of Briefings on Patient Safety has articles about the Institute for Healthcare...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 27, 2010
HealthGrades has released its eight annual HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality and Clinical...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
Hospitals in California reported 1,583 serious preventable events occurring for the fiscal year...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, put the 5S lean principle to work recently...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
A study published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that even when clinicians are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 51, December 23, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor. This online...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
Illinois has become home to a new type of facility for treating emergency patients—the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
Although Congress and President Barack Obama are considering incentives for hospitals to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) blog, a resource for nursing and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 48, December 2, 2009
November 2009 marked the ten year anniversary since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 48, December 2, 2009
Involving families in patients' care can improve family satisfaction as well as the standard of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
In recent years, several fellowships and education programs have been introduced to the field. Many...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
This issues has articles concerning the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals, options for patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
Patient satisfaction is on the rise, according to Press Ganey's annual Hospital Pulse Report. The...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF), under a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor.
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
A study published in the November 9 Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that hospital staff...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
Physicians are responsible for one of the most complicated and important decisions in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
As more facilities switch to electronic medical records (EMR), many are finding an unanticipated...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 42, October 21, 2009
It's widely reported that racial and ethnic minorities receive less comprehensive healthcare than...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
The Twelfth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study shows that a large gap exists...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Quality improvement is something that UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) in Worcester, MA, has...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In 2007, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles rolled out a “universal floor&rdquo...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In today’s culture, many hospitals are increasing their focus on patient-centered...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
This issues provides articles about building successful patient advisory boards, how a universal...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
On September 28, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Oncology Nursing...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
New York's North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System announced recently that it will pay each of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a set of 18 measures to better manage...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum announced the 2009 winners of the John M. Eisenberg...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
Once a novelty that few hospitals utilized, telemedicine is now becoming more common, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has launched the online component of its Improvement...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
The healthcare industry has maintained for years that it is unlike others simply because caring for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
A recent commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association calls for a list of patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Developing the right metrics—valid, reliable, feasible, meaningful, and...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
This issue contains stories that discuss a new consumer reporting system developed by the Agency...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 34, August 26, 2009
More news from the AHRQ- this time, however, patients may be acting as a threat to themselves. An...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
To boost quality and lower healthcare costs, it's not necessary for the American healthcare system...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Today's patients want to have a greater involvement in their care. To that end, both the federal...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Patients wanting to compare hospitals have a new outlet to do so: the same place where one might go...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) included modifications to the medication management chapter in its...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Ensuring patient safety and education are two of the most important tasks staff members in...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
As more hospital budgets are cut, it’s important for staff members who work in quality and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
Reducing rehospitalizations has become a national focus as health reform plays out. Readmissions...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
As hospitals face deeper payment cuts from the federal government, many are considering new methods...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
Performance data from Illinois hospitals will be posted on a public Web site this coming fall...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
The American Hospital Association and McKesson awarded its Quest for Quality Prize to Bronson...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 28, July 15, 2009
The Hospital Quality Alliance announced last week the addition of new data available on the CMS...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
For babies born prematurely, even the noise generated from a normal conversation can be too loud...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
A larger number of physicians are offering patients the option to be treated online, reports The...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria, VA, has launched a program titled HeartLink to empower...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, July 1, 2009
Delegates at the American Medical Association's annual meeting recently approved a policy that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Performing hand hygiene adequately and often is something that many healthcare facilities are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
On June 13, 2009, President Barack Obama called for an additional $220 billion cut to hospital...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
A new study done by Meritt Hawkins and Associates shows that wait times are growing rapidly for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Last month, a group of major healthcare players came together to take on the Obama administration's...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
A new proposed bill aims to lessen the effects of a nursing shortage, reports AHA News
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
The Joint Commission has asked the field to review and comment on revisions to the 2009 National...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Nine hospitals began taking part in a pilot program last week to track and analyze adverse events...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
some hospitals are turning to color-coded uniforms, most often scrubs, for each different type of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
This issue covers how HCAHPS has changed for 2009 and how facilities can boost their HCAHPS scores...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
CMS released its fifth quarterly update of patient satisfaction data March 26, one year after the...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
When someone becomes sick or injured and visits a doctor’s office, hospital, or other...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Creating a culture of safety has become a buzz phrase in patient safety during the past few years...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Lengthy wait times at emergency rooms (ER) around the country have given way to "urgent care...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
Researchers at North Carolina State University are embarking on redesigning the typical hospital...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
A new report from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, says that fewer "bad"...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will soon be launching a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
President Obama announced last week that the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The sixth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study was released on April 7...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A paper published in the most recent issue of Health Affairshighlights some of the areas in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Many hospitals and medical schools offer some variation of simulation-based training in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Announced at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) National Forum in December 2008, the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, has bucked the trend and guaranteed patients who undergo...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
A recent report by the New York City (NYC) comptroller found that hospitals in NYC report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Press Ganey, a consulting firm that works with 40% of the nation's hospitals to help improve...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Those patients who have a stronger relationship with their doctors were more likely to receive...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Hospitals that participate in the Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
The California HealthCare Foundation has released a study that shows that although the state began...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 45 new practices for delivering culturally competent...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
A portion of the recently passed $787 economic stimulus bill will provide money for studying...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
In an effort to accommodate the many physicians and nurses who work at more than one hospitals, a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
South Carolina hospitals will join together to fight against healthcare-acquired infections (HAI...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
California has published a study ranking hospitals based on their mortality rates, reports The Los...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
A study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week shows that when implementing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
The Chinese government has been debating a reformation of its public hospitals as one of the many...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
A study in the November/December Health Affairs shows that although many quality reporting...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Every year, 30,000–62,000 patients die as the result of central line–associated...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
To prevent central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), Swedish Medical Center in...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Throughout his medical career, Eric Schwartz, MD, hospitalist and medical director at Holston...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
Australian Health Minister John Della Bosca says that the government will require hospitals to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 3, 2008
In its annual report about quality and safety, The Joint Commission has released data to show that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 48, November 26, 2008
Back in late 2005 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation introduced “Expecting Success and...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
The National Health Service (NHS) has created a plan to post patient comments about NHS hospitals...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
Scarborough Hospital, Canada's largest urban community hospital, has turned around its reputation...
