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While many health care providers wrangle with exactly how to monitor and restrict gifts from vendors, an influential college association has come up with a direct solution: Ban all drug and medical device companies from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation's medical colleges.
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Health care providers are taking a hard look at how to restrict the free gifts, meals, and travel from pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers that have become a standard part of the health care business, and risk managers have a major role to play.
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The Joint Commission's April 11, 2008, Sentinel Event Alert offers a number of risk reduction strategies for pediatric medication errors.
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In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2% by addressing three major areas of sepsis care: identification of patients with sepsis, resuscitation strategies, and ICU management.
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Two-thirds of physicians say they are willing to report errors, but most don't actually do it, according to a new study.
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Patients at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) in Macon "are responding very well" to the use of check-in kiosks, which have led to dramatic reductions in the amount of time they spend being registered and waiting for service, says Jane Gray, CPA, FACHE, FABC, assistant vice president for patient business services.
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Have you ever presented physicians with carefully analyzed data to demonstrate areas in need of improvement and then discover that your findings are disputed?
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Finding someone usually a nurse to blame without looking at the underlying reasons an error was made. Failing to involve hospital leaders in fixing serious systemic problems. Changing a policy or educating staff without addressing necessary process changes.
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During an October 2003 survey conducted at Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Broward General Medical Center by The Joint Commission, surveyors recommended improvements with the organization's pediatric sedation process.
