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Questions to ask Patients About Medication History
Here are 12 great questions to get you started.
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Are You Worrying About Med Rec?
Patient safety and quality issues seem to have years when they are popular and then years when they fall out of favor, when other items get all the press.
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Root cause analysis is not enough
The NPSF released a document in June designed to explain the concept of RCA2 (RCA Squared).
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Breaking News: Update on Two-Midnight Rule
CMS released proposed updates to the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System that will impact the existing Two-Midnight Rule beginning January 2016.
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New rapid-deployment plasma protocol in ED
While traumatic injury is the leading cause of death among people under age 45, if given plasma quickly, they will have a better chance at survival. Now, a new protocol from the American College of Surgeons aims to reduce the average wait time of 30 minutes or longer for plasma.
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FORCE-TJR gets CMS qualification
The national hip and knee joint replacement registry has received certification from CMS as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry.
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Can you teach doctors to improve patient satisfaction?
A study in the May issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine may give hope to physicians and the hospitals where they work that they can learn the skills needed to improve the scores related to their interactions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
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Hospital Compare starts with stars
The first group of star ratings are out for Hospital Compare, CMS’ hospital rating system.
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Incentivize patients and they will walk
There is ample evidence that early walking can help surgical patients avoid complications like ileus, deep vein thrombosis and pneumonia.
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Stop the Racket
A coalition of organizations involved in surgery is worried about how new technologies increase the noise and distraction levels in the operating room and otherwise affect patient safety and privacy.