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The Leapfrog Group updated its Hospital Safety Scores in November 2012, five months after the first scores were released. More than half of the hospitals received the same score as in June 2012, and 23% earned a higher grade.
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Low patient safety scores from The Leapfrog Group have some hospitals crying foul and claiming that the groups data is old and the scoring methodology flawed. If you didnt get the score you were hoping for, should that be cause for alarm, or can you dismiss it?
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When nurses feel safe admitting to their supervisors that theyve made a mistake regarding a patient, they are more likely to report the error, according to an international team of researchers.
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News: This case involves a 24-year-old single father who was involuntarily committed to the hospital for severe depression, including suicidal and homicidal ideations.
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Explantation of battery-operated implants such as pacemakers involves pressing ethical issues but receives little attention, according to Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD, a clinical ethicist and associate professor at Bond University School of Medicine in Australia, and former faculty in the Department of Bioethics at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
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Both autonomy and the law favor allowing patients access to their medical records, and there are clearly associated benefits, says Gregory R. Moore, MD, MPH, senior director at Stamps Health Services at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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There is still "a good deal of confusion" about what informed consent and shared decision-making really are, according to Howard Brody, MD, PhD, John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
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Ensuring all patients have access to affordable health insurance is one of our top priorities, says Irma Becker, manager of patient access at Phoenix (AZ) Childrens Hospital/Phoenix Childrens Medical Group.
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Although patient identification has long been an issue within the hospital community, a new push in the conversion to electronic health records (EHRs) has added new challenges and solutions, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), which references an article in Government Health IT.
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Some patients were frustrated because they had to provide similar documentation to two departments at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, reports Desember Brucker, manager of ambulatory registration services.