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A number of hospitals across the country have found they can drastically reduce the cost of staff salaries, while at the same time ensuring full nursing shifts, through shift bidding. This on-line vehicle also has been shown to boost staff morale while improving patient care and satisfaction.
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A patient is about to be admitted to your hospital but first goes
on-line to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations new Quality Check web site.
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If your organization is ranked as having lower mortality rates for heart attack patients than any other hospital in your community, your public relations staff probably would want to jump all over this for their next promotional campaign.
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As of Jan. 1, 2006, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will require your organization to complete or update its periodic performance review (PPR) once a year, as opposed to every three years. Does this sound like an additional burden for your already overworked staff? If so, you may not be using the PPR as you should.
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The subject of health care performance measurement has to date focused on two main topics: What should be measured and how to design efficient measurement systems.
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With the unprecedented shortage of influenza vaccine this flu season, hospitals are scrambling to prepare for what may be a record number of flu patients presenting to their already overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) and for staff shortages due to record absenteeism.
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Same-day surgery programs and office-based surgery programs must choose at least 10 of the look-alike and sound-alike drug names to place on their watch list of medications that can be easily confused to meet the 2005 national patient safety goal that focuses upon reducing medication errors.
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A 7-year-old goes in for routine ear surgery and dies after receiving a dose of concentrated epinephrine. Surely this is an isolated case or is it? A recent survey of safety errors in otorhinolaryngology practice shows that of 466 responses, there were five cases of inadvertent injection or placement of 1:1,000 epinephrine.