Outpatient Surgery
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Med/mal claims show consistent factors
Claims involving routine medical procedures - scopes, injections, punctures, biopsies, insertion of tubes, or imaging - resulted in $215 million in incurred losses, according to an analysis of 1,497 cases. -
Patient participation in checklist is win-win
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Publicly reporting data from surgery is targeted
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The Unlucky 13: Early Warning Signs of Potential Violence at Work
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Hospital finds it pays to fight fraud charges
George Washington University (GWU) Hospital in Washington, DC, prevailed in an 16-year-old lawsuit accusing the hospital of False Claims Act violations. -
Publicly reporting data from surgery is targeted
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Informed consent can play part in violence
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What's wrong with care transitions? Ask patients
The patients who come into hospitals are often very ill and not in the best state. But give them a chance to help improve care, and if they are able, they are almost always willing. -
Big and small, Baldrige winners say it's about the journey
It's doubtful that anyone goes into the Baldrige process looking for a site visit the first year. -
All the tools in the box and no one to use them
You join a collaborative because you want access to data and ideas. Together you might find something out that individually you could not. That's the theory. And it works.