There’s around 1 million American physicians who’re allowed to write opioid prescriptions, or one out of 320 Americans. However, fewer than 32,000 physicians are allowed to prescribe buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid addiction.
CMS has begun adopting the preventable quality indicators (PQI) rate into its incentive and penalty program as a way to measure the number of preventable hospital admissions. However, PQI rates only agree with physicians' assessments 10% of the time.
On March 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Olympus Corp. with paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to hospitals and doctors to buy its products. The company, which owns 85% of the U.S. endoscope market, has agreed to pay $646 million to resolve the criminal charges and civil charges...
On February 24, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Robert Califf, MD, as the new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. The Senate vote in Califf’s favor was 89-4, ending a yearlong debate over his suitability.
There were 1,089 patient suicides logged into the Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Database between 2010 and 2014; overall, suicides were the 10th leading cause of death in America in 2013, resulting in 41,149 deaths.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 3
This is an opinion, written by someone who in the interest of full disclosure is a director of patient experience and worked for the Studer Group. I am sick and tired of recently reading so many articles articulating the pervasive thought that patient satisfaction is ruining healthcare.
For the last two years, healthcare organizations have been working to comply with the first phase of The Joint Commission's alarm management National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG). As of January 1, 2016, they'll have to contend with the second phase as well.
A report released by a leading patient safety organization emphasizes the importance of safety culture as part of a broader call for healthcare facilities to transition to a "total systems approach" to care.
