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Data suggests tort reform decreases patient safety
Risk managers want to lower malpractice damages and improve patient safety, but recent research suggests that those goals might be at odds with each other. Legislation that caps malpractice damages actually might lead clinicians to make more errors. The reason? They relax, because they know the potential consequences are limited.
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Surgeons respond well to wrong-site stories
Research reports from the Veterans Health Administration suggest that surgeons are affected by hearing tales of wrong-site errors and the lessons learned, but that adherence to the Universal Protocol does not prevent the errors.
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Communication issues lead to wrong-site errors
Despite years of emphasis on using the Universal Protocol and site marking, wrong-site errors occur in about one in 100,000 surgeries, according to a recent study in the journal Surgery.
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Problem of wrong-site surgery and retained objects won’t go away
Wrong-site surgery errors persist even after years of concerted efforts to avoid them, and some of the standard prevention policies and procedures might not be effective enough. Some hospitals are finding other ways to prevent this never event and other errors.
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Black boxes are similar to birth videos and other taped recordings
The data from surgical “black boxes” would revive liability concerns that previously arose from patients recording childbirth and the practice of surgeons giving patients a video of their procedure to take home, legal experts say.
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The Surgical Black Box is Here
There's growing interest in using systems during surgery to record a wealth of information, such as data from medical devices.
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CDC issues core elements for antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes
It’s no exaggeration to say that antibiotic stewardship programs in nursing homes will literally save lives.
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Measles can cause costly chaos even if no transmission occurs
Considering everything that went absolutely wrong — and that’s a lot — it’s something of a minor miracle that more than 1,000 people were exposed to measles in May 2014 at Inova Health System in Fairfax, VA, without a single case of transmission. Not one.
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APIC: IPs should use bold new ANA vaccine statement to open discussion of APIC policies
Infection prevention leaders say the field has been given a critical opportunity to open vaccine policy discussions and improve both patient and worker safety by the surprisingly strong stance recently taken by the American Nurses Association.
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CDC, FDA sound alarm on recurrent problems in reprocessing
Warning that continuing infection control lapses are endangering patients, the CDC and the FDA recently issued a joint alert calling for healthcare facilities to review policies and practices in cleaning and processing reusable medical devices.