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IOM error report called exaggerated, inaccurate
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JCAHO to survey hospitals’ compliance with HCFA rule
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JCAHO develops standards for office surgery
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Unremoved sponge: $482,000 settlement
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Patient safety the VA way: One hospital can point the way for others to follow
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. -
These tools show cause of close calls, adverse events
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. -
VA program for surgical quality called a success
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. -
Crash carts must be locked; beware of delays involved
Question: I understand that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires that crash carts be locked when not in use during an emergency, but how must they be locked? -
ECRI issues alert on some thoracic catheters
An independent health care safety watchdog has issued a critical alert to hospitals regarding a potential threat to patient safety caused by some thoracic catheters in Pharmaseal Thoracentesis Trays distributed by McGaw Park, IL-based Allegiance Healthcare Corp. -
Nursing shortage affects patient postsurgery survival
The ongoing nursing shortage can have a direct effect on a patients survival after surgery, according to a new study.