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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient safety system can be mined for strategies that could work well in your own organization, but another successful program from the VA could be directly available to all hospitals within a year.
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These are the categories of triage questions used by the Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) to help health care providers determine what really led to an adverse event or close call.
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The efforts by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve patient safety are paying huge dividends for the hundreds of hospitals participating in its system of adverse-event reporting and analysis, suggesting that other health care providers could benefit from adopting the same techniques.
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According to a survey just released by the Minneapolis-based Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), the health care industry is continuing to take the necessary steps to ensure compliance with sweeping changes required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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As hospitals continue their efforts to comply with the National Patient Safety Goals issued by the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, some risk management and quality assurance experts are issuing a strong warning: Dont go overboard with your efforts to write new policies and procedures because they can create unnecessary liability risks.
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After an initial round of laser surgery on her face, the patient consented to a second procedure, which was limited to an eyelid tuck and minor laser surgery to her chin. Despite the limitation, the ophthalmologist performed a full-face laser procedure, inadvertently resulting in second- and third-degree burns.
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Increasingly, hospitals and other health care facilities are finding that they cant seriously reduce back injuries without using machines to do the lifting.
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Representatives of leading health care and consumer groups have endorsed 30 patient safety practices they say should be universally used in health care settings to reduce the risk of harm resulting from processes, systems, or environments of care.
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An elderly nursing home resident with a history of dementia fell and hit his head. Evidence of the incident was concealed by the nursing staff.
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With 2003 insurance quotes now in, New Jersey hospitals report an average annual medical malpractice insurance premium of nearly $1.9 million, a 71% increase over the average 2002 premium of $1.1 million.