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When doctors, nurses, and other hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heartbeat, or other crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75% less likely to miss a critical clinical step, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of patient safety strategies employed at hospitals across the country, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a report identifying the top 10 patient safety strategies that can be implemented immediately by healthcare providers.
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The risk of malpractice allegations is a major barrier to reducing caesarean rates, says Charles W. Fisher, JD, principal with the law firm of Kitch in Detroit.
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Washington State surgeons recently announced standardized guidelines for preoperative care in the form of pre-surgical checklists and tools available to all surgeons to use in their offices or by patients at home to ensure that the health of patients is optimized before surgery.
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News: A 52-year-old patient underwent bariatric surgery at the defendant hospital. Prior to surgery, the patients weight exceeded 500 pounds.
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With healthcare reform efforts encouraging hospitals to align with physicians more closely, questions are arising about how to do that without running afoul of rules prohibiting kickbacks and collusion.
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In the recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) opinion regarding co-management, the OIG noted that the arrangement was not protected by any Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbor because the aggregate payment to the group was not set in advance, explains Janice Anderson, JD, shareholder with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughar in Chicago.
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Successful collectors agree that requests for money should be respectful and matter-of-fact.
