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Complying with The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) can be a challenge, and managers are developing a variety of approaches to ensure compliance.
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The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) began in 1994 in response to concern over the quality of care, specifically operative mortality rates, in VA hospitals. Since then it has expanded to all hospital settings and come under the auspices of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
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Want to save money? Put up a cost savings suggestion box with rewards for employees and, potentially, physicians, advises Roger Pence, president of FWI Healthcare, an Edgarton, OH-based consulting firm primarily for ambulatory health care providers.
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Do you assume your patient data are secure? You might want to take a second look. SecureWorks, an Atlanta-based security services provider, is blocking an average of 15,543 attempted hacker attacks a day per health care client, compared to an average of 1,581 attacks per day per bank client.
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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has announced its 2009 standards, including a new chapter on lithotripsy services, as well as medical home and behavioral health services.
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No more needlesticks. That sounds like a laudable goal that could prevent health care workers from being exposed to deadly diseases. But, in tandem, outpatient surgery managers need to maintain another important message that could actually cause their numbers to rise: Report all needlesticks.
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Yale Law School professor and physician Jay Katz, MD, died Nov. 17 at age 86, according to the school's web site.
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A new study published Nov. 13 in the Chicago-based American Medical Association's (AMA) Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal found that consistent, evidence-based performance measurements are needed to accurately evaluate hospitals' ability to manage patient care during a disaster, the AMA says.
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The recent case of a 12-year-old boy named Motl Brody brought attention not only to the occasional dilemmas presented by the designation of brain death, but also how to address faith traditions in determining death.
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On Nov. 4, 2008, Washington state voters passed a ballot initiative giving terminally ill patients with six months to live the right to have a physician prescribe lethal drugs for the patient to self-administer to bring about his or her death.