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Mock Surveys Can Augment Compliance Efforts
Pretend surveys may reassure the organization that compliance is good and it is ready for a real survey — or it can unearth deficiencies that should be corrected before they result in real penalties. In most cases, it is a mixture of both.
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COVID-19 May Be Affecting Nursing Discipline, But No Data Yet
There is some concern about whether the healthcare industry’s response to COVID-19 will affect the way it addresses concerns about nursing performance, similar to recent concerns about an apparent drop in physician discipline since the pandemic began. So far, data related to nursing discipline are not showing any decline.
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Improved ICU Physician Staffing Leads to Better Safety Grade
When Doylestown Hospital in Pennsylvania received a C on the Spring 2016 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, leaders launched a campaign to improve patient safety. A central tactic was adapting its staffing model to meet Leapfrog’s ICU Physician Staffing criteria.
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Hospital Sharply Reduces CDS Alerts to Address Clinician Concerns
Indiana University Health realized its clinical decision support system was overwhelming clinicians with alerts. Read on to learn how leaders acted to improve the process.
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Tips for Integrating Medication into Clinical Decision Support
An expert explains how hospitals can use clinical decision support to improve care while alleviating clinician frustration.
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Improve Clinical Decision Support to Alleviate Frustration
Clinical decision support (CDS) is meant to improve care quality by providing helpful alerts and advice to the electronic health record user. However, too often the result is an annoying proliferation of pop-ups that only frustrate clinicians. When the CDS system interrupts too much with alerts that are not useful, the result can be counterproductive. Clinicians routinely dismiss alerts. In the process, they may ignore those alerts that are useful, say researchers and hospital leaders.
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IHI Issues Action Plan on Patient Safety
In the last 20 years, patient safety has become more important, but it has plateaued as a priority for healthcare organizations.
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Questions Raised Over Clinician Discipline in COVID-19 Era
With clinicians and hospital administrators strained by the COVID-19 pandemic, some are raising questions about whether oversight of clinician quality and performance is falling through the cracks.
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Tips and Best Practices for Telehealth
Experts offer advice on where to begin with telehealth implementation and identify mistakes to avoid.
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Consider Telehealth Privacy Concerns
Technology that was not developed specifically for telehealth still can be used safely, but some caution is warranted. Providers must make a good faith effort to protect the privacy of the patient when using telehealth.