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Employee health is an all-encompassing job, and the upcoming conference of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) in Tampa, FL, reflects that.
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Military personnel who developed myopericarditis from the smallpox vaccine responded to treatment and did not have lasting, observable effects, according to a review of the cases published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Brace yourself: Flu season is right around the corner. Are you prepared? If an influenza pandemic hits, the entire U.S. population could be at risk. The annual impact of influenza on the United States is staggering: 10% to 20% of the population will get the flu.
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Consider this true example, taken from the December 2003 issue of ECRIs Health Devices, of how a fire can occur during surgery.
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Living wills dont work and waste your time when you promote them to patients, according to researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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The parents of a newborn baby retained a home health agency to provide in-home child care. The agency failed to follow its screening procedures when selecting the nurses aide and overlooked her history of drug abuse and theft. This case presents a classic illustration of why it is absolutely imperative that an organization follow the rules, especially when it was the organization itself that wrote the rules, states Ellen Barton, JD, CPCU, a risk management consultant in Phoenix, MD.
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Several perennial worries of risk managers are under consideration by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations as new National Patient Safety Goals for 2005, and experts in two of the hottest topics harm from patient falls and the risk of surgical fires say you should assess your efforts in these areas now.
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Here are the proposed 2005 National Patient Safety Goals for hospitals. The goals differ somewhat from one health care setting to another.
