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An analysis of surgical malpractice claims shows rising payment amounts, with patient outcomes as the strongest predictor of payment size.
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The task force that reduced clinical alarms at The Johns Hopkins Hospital learned many valuable lessons along the way, says Maria Cvach, MSN, RN, CCRN, assistant director of nursing clinical standards.
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A group of Johns Hopkins nurses, physicians, and engineers have significantly reduced the number of distracting, non-critical bedside alarms in some of the hospitals noisiest areas up to 74% in some cases in an improvement that has been linked to patient safety.
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As the use of Twitter and other social media by physicians and patients rises, some professionals worry that physicians increasingly seem to forget to do what many consider crucial for building doctor-patient trust:
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The recent dismissal of a lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) against Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, TN, holds several lessons for risk managers, says the health systems attorney, Paul E. Prather, JD, a shareholder with the law firm of Littler Mendelson in Memphis.
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Simply gathering the data about clinical alarms wasnt enough to help The Johns Hopkins Hospital improve patient safety. Those numbers have to be broken down into meaningful parts.
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In 2006, Maria Cvach, MSN, RN, CCRN, assistant director of nursing clinical standards at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Andrew Currie, MS, CBET, the director of clinical engineering, were asked to head a team to reduce clinical alarms.
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News: In 2005, a 43-year-old man was crushed by an all-terrain vehicle when it crashed and flipped over while he was riding it.
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A new nightmare bacteria has put renewed emphasis on health care worker use of personal protective equipment and compliance with hand hygiene.
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According to guidelines updated in 2012,1 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the following measures for identifying and managing hepatitis B virusinfected health-care providers and students: