While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some interesting, if not entirely unexpected news: facilities and physical environment issues continue...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In any organization's quality department there lives a nefarious, ever-present beast. It's usually in paper form and comprises a list of seemingly innocuous phrases or sentences and to the far right is the "checkbox." It's easy to become disdainful of checklists, but the reality is they play...
In a research report released in May by The RAND Corporation, entitled Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management, researchers from RAND Health, ECRI Institute, the University of Texas, and Baylor College of Medicine studied 11 hospitals and...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some interesting, if not entirely unexpected news: facilities and physical environment issues continue...
Does your organization have a formalized process for debriefing after an adverse event? And if so, is it working? For many organizations, reporting of adverse events can be problematic, with challenges ranging from time management and inefficient processes to the age-old challenge of shame?...
Hospitals are permitted to define what medication information is necessary to be obtained from the patient in a non-24-hour setting. What information do we collect in our outpatient clinic and ED?