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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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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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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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Texas researchers are calling for a national strategy to address patient safety in electronic health records (EHRs).
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The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Cautious Patient Foundation have announced a collaboration to help patients avoid diagnostic errors in their own care.
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Disruptive behaviors, intimidation in the workplace, and a culture of disrespect among healthcare professionals have repeatedly surfaced as significant barriers to patient safety.
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When the American Hospital Association (AHA) criticized The Leapfrog Group for its patient safety scoring methodology, Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, struck back.
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When Risk Manager Shawna Willcox, CPHRM, MBA, was investigating the death of a child who mistakenly was administered another patients medications at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, she found that the nurse had been distracted while preparing the morning meds.
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A group representing employers across the country has asked the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to closely examine new guidelines on the use of criminal background checks to screen job applicants.
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In spite of significant efforts over the past two decades to improve healthcare quality and safety, it is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. healthcare system.
