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Q&A: Wrong-site markings, sloppy timeouts, and RNs only
There always is a lot of reaction to my Q&A articles. These questions were asked in the past month or so related to patient safety, liability, and compliance.
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Defective instrument probe and safety checklist lead to award
Northbank Surgical Center, in Salem, OR, recently was recognized for safety efforts that included investigating an instrument through the FDA's MedWatch program and sharing its findings with other facilities.
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Council Endorses Periop Noise-reduction Resource
The Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety endorses a safe surgery resource chart to reduce the risk of noise and distraction in the perioperative period.
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Credentialing problems can leave your facility holding the liability bag
Surgeon credentialing is a “big blind spot” for healthcare providers, according to a recently published commentary in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Self-register to access Joint Commission Connect
Self-registration for The Joint Commission Connect makes “guest access” quick and easy.
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Video educates patients on preparing for surgery
Healthcare organizations and providers have access to a new video from The Joint Commission, Speak Up: When You’re Having Surgery, to share with their patients.
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AAAHC Institute for QI offers patient safety toolkits
The AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement designs tools to improve the quality of healthcare, including patient safety toolkits to provide an overview of evidence-based information, references, and patient assessment tools.
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Guidance for ambulatory surgery on obese patients
The AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement has released a toolkit to prevent intraoperative and postoperative complications for obese patients who might be undergoing ambulatory surgery.
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Are you using health IT safely? If not, it could lead to sentinel events, TJC warns
IT records must fit the case. Consider this example: A surgeon used one common note for each basic appendectomy procedure in his health information technology system.
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Medicare patients undergo unnecessary tests before cataract surgery, study finds
More than half of all Medicare patients who have cataract surgery undergo unnecessary routine preoperative testing, despite strong evidence that these tests usually are not beneficial and increase national healthcare costs, says a New England Journal of Medicine study.