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Quality and Safety Promoted by Disclosing Errors to All Staff
Most hospitals have embraced the idea of disclosing medical errors to the patient and family members, but Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, goes a step further by informing all hospital staff about these incidents.
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Study Shows Safety Culture Affects Hospital Quality
Hospitals usually focus on technical issues like surgeons’ skills and operating room equipment when seeking to improve surgery outcomes and overall quality. New research, however, is reinforcing the idea that a patient safety culture may be equally important in delivering high-quality patient care.
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Safety Culture Proven to Improve Quality
But how does a patient safety culture influence quality, and how do you know if you have instilled that culture throughout your organization?
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Look for weak links to prevent drug diversion
A drug diversion specialist who frequently consults with healthcare facilities on drug diversion cites common areas of weakness in diversion prevention programs.
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Sounding the alarm about suicide risk
Given that EDs are among the most likely places for patients at risk for suicide to present, experts say training staff to recognize and manage such patients is critical.
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Bridge model blends social work with case management
A care transitions model that bridges the gap for patients with social-environmental barriers to better health management has expanded to more than 50 sites across the country.
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Summary of the CDC’s 12 recommendations
The CDC issued 12 recommendations related to opioid prescription use. The following is a summary of those recommendations.
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CDC’s new opioid guidelines are welcome change from case management perspective
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidelines for prescribing and managing prescription opioids in hopes of curtailing some of the nation’s more than 14,000 opioid overdose deaths each year.
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Case Managers and Decreasing ED Visits
Embedded care managers helped a major health system in its transition from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care model.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: examining autoimmune disorders associated with vitiligo; moderate alcohol consumption is not associated with reduced all-cause mortality; and rethinking the American diet.