As patient safety, infection control, and quality improvement professionals continue toward their “path to zero”—as in zero hospital-acquired infections, zero medication errors, and zero wrong-site surgeries—at some point or another, they usually stumble upon resistance. The...
In a January report, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that patients who fall out of bed often do not receive adequate care, including delay in diagnosis, failure to record neurological observations, and delay in-urgent surgery.
When I was first accepted into my graduate program for healthcare administration, I remember scanning the coursework that I was about to undertake for the next two years. While investigating all the classes, I mentally...
Healthcare providers face a number of difficult challenges in the year ahead, only one of which is to improve patient care while reducing costs. The way to success, according to Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the IHI, is to think differently about patient care...
Healthcare providers face a number of difficult challenges in the year ahead, only one of which is to improve patient care while reducing costs. The way to success, according to Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the IHI, is to think differently about patient care...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 2
Are you questioning your readiness for the recently approved Joint Commission patient-provider communication standards? Although these standards don’t have a firm implementation date when they will actually be scored, they are available and surveyors will be assessing for compliance in 2011...
As cliché as it might sound, the start of a new year brings a new opportunity to pause and plan for the 12 months ahead. Even though many of us run operations on a separate fiscal year, where budget planning takes precedence for new strategies and projects, I’m a firm believer that the beginning...
