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Seeking to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care by reducing medical lawsuit abuse and using evidence-based guidelines developed by doctors, medical liability reform legislation is being sponsored by Reps. Ami Bera (D-CA) and Andy Barr (R-KY).
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A risk managers allegations of fraud regarding her former employer are raising questions about the ethics of a risk manager becoming a whistleblower. Experts say the risk manager must exhaust all other remedies before reporting malfeasance to regulators.
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Patient sitters can be effective in reducing falls, and the savings can exceed the cost of the sitters. Hospitals should follow specific guidelines for a sitter program.
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In the national reports on patient harm, many indicators have seen marked improvement in the last decade. Several hospital infections have become much rarer, with many hospital units going years without seeing a single case.
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If youve ever had surgery, you have probably had routine preoperative testing that is, testing everyone goes through whether or not there is reason to think they have whatever problem the test is for of some sort.
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When you bring up the topic of patient engagement to hospitals, most of them think immediately of a committee a patient and family council or having patients and families participate in some way on some of the many committees that help make hospitals run smoothly.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in March that there would be no mandate for hospitals to join patient safety organizations (PSOs) until January 2017, at the earliest, rather than January 2015, many probably breathed a sigh of relief.
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The argument goes that given long enough, someone we know, or we ourselves, will be in a hospital, so any one of us, plopped into a hospital committee, counts as a patient or family member, right?