True or false: When a patient has been seen in the outpatient clinic for a minor eye infection and is sent home with antibiotic eye drops that are to be administered over 14 days, the patient should receive a full list of medications, dosages, routes, and frequency before leaving the clinic.
Emergency departments are busier than ever, with more than 136 million patient visits in 2011, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
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...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
One of the many facets of any successful hospital is its environment of care and cleanliness. There are many regulations that focus on this seemingly simple aspect, yet it is one of the most difficult and costly to uphold. The environment of care not only directly impacts the...
