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The exclusive 2005 Healthcare Risk Management Salary Survey was sent to 1,173 readers in the July 2005 issue. A total of 161 were returned, for a response rate of 14%. The results were tabulated and analyzed by American Health Consultants, publisher of HRM.
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The story hits the news every once in a while, but it always seems like such an extreme case: A hospital staffer confesses to killing multiple patients over time, usually with fatal injections and often under the pretense of a "mercy killing."
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Creating a better defense against health care workers who would harm your patients means working closely with your human resources department, but prepare yourself for a challenge.
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When it comes to the specifics of exactly what to tell the patient, risk mangers and physicians often disagree and -- surprisingly — the physicians are often more in favor of telling the patient the whole story than the risk managers are.
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A survey conducted by Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, included scenarios that presented medical errors to the physician and risk manager respondents and then asked them how they would disclose the error to patients.
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While the severity of malpractice claims continues to rise -- growing at a rate of 7.5% annually -- the frequency of malpractice claims has decreased by 1% over the past year.
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A patient died of natural causes at the defendant hospital. However, when the funeral home came to collect the body, it took the hospital 2 1/2 days to find the corpse.
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When a past employee left your organization under questionable circumstances, or with a history of suspicious behavior, it is important to be honest with the next employer who asks for a referral.
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When asked about attitudes toward when and how to disclose, the gap between risk managers and physicians becomes more apparent...
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Many hospitals outside the area directly affected by Hurricane Katrina had difficulty sending in teams of clinicians because of concerns about liability, ...
