Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 12

Comprehensive training and robust data crucial to robotic surgical safety

December 1, 2015
Patient Safety

Recent data highlights device malfunctions that led to injury and death, but experts say better data collection and improved team training is needed

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 12

Eight goals to improve diagnoses

December 1, 2015
Patient Safety

Building on a 1999 report that focused on treatment, the IOM turns its attention toward diagnostic errors that impact patients

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 12

Show me the money: HHS invests in patient safety

December 1, 2015
Patient Safety

The federal government is shelling out nearly $800 million to transform clinical practices and continue funding Hospital Engagement Networks

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 12

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2015

December 1, 2015
Patient Safety

Building on a 1999 report that focused on treatment, the IOM turns its attention toward diagnostic errors that impact patients

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Study: Acute Care for the Elderly units benefit seniors

November 24, 2015
Patient Safety

A new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) units have a positive impact on both patients and hospitals.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Leapfrog finds slow improvements in patient safety

November 3, 2015
Patient Safety

The latest release of the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Scores finds slow patient safety improvement in U.S. hospitals.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 11

Yelp bolsters reviews with ProPublica data in new partnership

November 1, 2015
Patient Safety

As more consumer websites get into the business of rating physicians, hospitals are jumping on board in an effort to contribute to the online conversation

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 11

Patient Monitor Journal, November 2015

November 1, 2015
Patient Safety

When The Joint Commission announced its proposed changes to NPSG.07.06.01 in September, it's likely that they were met with more shrugged shoulders than panicked expressions.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 16, Issue 11

Safety advocates: Certain patient safety practices should be mandatory

November 1, 2015
Patient Safety

Hand hygiene compliance and influenza vaccination are two patient safety practices that should be considered mandatory, according to experts at the National Patient Safety Foundation's (NPSF) Lucian Leape Institute.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

FDA issues safety alert on bronchoscopes

October 27, 2015
Patient Safety

The FDA issued a safety alert in September about infections associated with reprocessed flexible bronchoscopes. Although the level of concern over infection-related illnesses from bronchoscopes is not as high as the level of concerns over inadequately reprocessed endoscopes, the goal of the...

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