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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced recently that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products. The measure will help protect patients from preventable medication errors and reduce the cost of health care, he says.
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If youre feeling bad because your organization has not yet adopted the Leapfrog Groups ambitious campaign to improve patient safety in hospitals, youre not alone.
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Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH) in Vincennes, IN, uses this policy to establish a nonpunitive environment that encourages employees to report errors.
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Susan Chmieleski, APRN, JD, CPHRM, director of health care risk management with the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies in Simsbury, CT, offers these tips for keeping the plaintiffs hands out of the hospitals pockets.
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Obstetric claims continue to be among the most catastrophic and costly of malpractice cases, so providers must protect themselves from becoming the deep pocket by enforcing policies that promote patient safety and are consistent with the standard of care, says an attorney and insurance company leader.
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This spring, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will begin to conduct routine not-for-cause audits of institutions and IRBs that are affiliated with Veterans Affairs (VA) research.
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Experts offer these suggestions on how to recruit and retain community IRB members.
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Attend any major IRB conference and one common complaint is that IRBs are having difficulty recruiting and retaining community members.
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Techniques for accurately measuring the rates of brain atrophy from serial MRI images have improved significantly in recent years. A few of these techniques have been implemented in a partially or fully automated fashion, which is arguably a necessary precondition to their being applied clinically.
