U.S. hospitals are making headway in preventing adverse events, with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimating that 1.3 million fewer patients were harmed from 2010 to 2013.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
The Joint Commission recently released a new chapter to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) entitled Patient Safety Systems. The chapter is intended to encourage organizations to build more high-reliability environments, specifically working to promote and foster high-...
Is everything you need to know in the medical record? While we rely on the medical record (be it paper, electronic, or hybrid) to create a complete portrait of a patient's overall care, the human factor can interfere with making sure everything makes it into the record. There are...
Last month, we looked at what the international community could do in the face of the current Ebola outbreak and addressed many fears and concerns in the healthcare community about what the outbreak meant for us here in the U.S. Since that time, perhaps unsurprisingly, we have had...
Editor's note: In this new feature, BOJ advisor Jodi Eisenberg, MHA, CPHQ, CPMSM, CSHA, manager of accreditation, clinical compliance, and policy management for Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in...
A new Johns Hopkins study raises additional questions about the correlation between what patients think they know about their medical condition versus their true understanding
