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The argument goes that given long enough, someone we know, or we ourselves, will be in a hospital, so any one of us, plopped into a hospital committee, counts as a patient or family member, right?
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in March that there would be no mandate for hospitals to join patient safety organizations (PSOs) until January 2017, at the earliest, rather than January 2015, many probably breathed a sigh of relief.
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When you bring up the topic of patient engagement to hospitals, most of them think immediately of a committee a patient and family council or having patients and families participate in some way on some of the many committees that help make hospitals run smoothly.
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If youve ever had surgery, you have probably had routine preoperative testing that is, testing everyone goes through whether or not there is reason to think they have whatever problem the test is for of some sort.
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In the national reports on patient harm, many indicators have seen marked improvement in the last decade. Several hospital infections have become much rarer, with many hospital units going years without seeing a single case.
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With data from 1,000 hospitals coming in regularly, top 10 lists are probably easy to create for ECRI Institute PSO, a Plymouth Meeting, PA-based PSO and research organization. The latest by the organization is a Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report, released in April.
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