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A fall reduction system that encourages caregivers to respond early to warning signs has been proven to significantly reduce falls, according to the manufacturer.
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Ambient background noise whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect auditory processing among surgeons and the members of their team in the operating room (OR), according to a new study.
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Risk managers routinely use a root cause analysis (RCA) to determine the true source of an adverse outcome or other event, but are your RCAs as good as they could be?
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Wrong-site brain surgery left a Missouri woman unable to speak intelligibly and in need of around-the-clock care, according to a complaint filed in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County in Clayton, MO.
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At press time, no infants had been abducted from healthcare providers in the United States in 2013, but there are steps you can take to ensure that disaster does not strike your facility, notes prevention expert John Rabun, ASCW, director of infant abduction response for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, VA
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An 18-month patient safety effort by 21 hospitals in the Cincinnati, OH, region has reduced incidents of patient falls that result in injury in these hospitals by 64%, and one of the key reasons is that the hospitals did something that might have made risk managers gasp in recent years: They shared their own proprietary data about falls.
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A federal jury in South Carolina has found that Tuomey Healthcare System, based in Sumter, violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting false claims for reimbursement to the United States to the tune of $39 million in damages.
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Efforts to lower healthcare costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing, and frivolous payouts are among the heaviest drains on healthcare resources. But a new review of malpractice claims by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests such assertions are wrong.
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In March 2013, a jury awarded a multi-million dollar verdict to a young woman who suffered severe brain injuries after nurses failed to follow doctors orders and mistreated her for an asthma-related condition.
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Great strides have been made in the treatment of sickle cell disease, the inherited blood disorder that occurs most commonly in African-Americans. Patients with the disease used to die before reaching adulthood, but today many patients live well into their 40s and beyond.