ED Management – January 1, 2015

January 1, 2015

• Intriguing model significantly reduces boarding of psychiatric patients, need for inpatient hospitalization

  Developers of the approach urge other communities to devise similar approaches, but funding is an issue

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• Study: New approach to handoffs slashes errors, preventable adverse events; other medical centers move to implement the protocol

  A new approach to hospital handoffs has shown it can significantly reduce medical errors as well as preventable adverse events. The approach, dubbed the I-PASS bundle, uses a mnemonic to alert providers to all the issues that need to be covered during a handoff, but also includes a written handoff tool, communication training, a sustainability campaign, and a process for feedback.

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• The Joint Commission: Hospitals make strides on core measures with more achieving “top performer” status

  With all the challenges that frontline health care providers have faced this year, from Ebola and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to the sweeping implementation of the Affordable Care Act, news from The Joint Commission (TJC) that hospitals are continuing to make significant strides on key quality measures was certainly welcome.

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