Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from The Joint Commission's recent webinar "Managing patient outcomes: The battle against sepsis!" discussing its disease-specific care program for the condition. ...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
High reliability is a new term for an old concept: providing the highest quality products or services consistently and uniformly to all customers. There has been a host of tools, guidelines, initiatives, and programs focused on high reliability in nearly every industry....
There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when patients were left almost entirely in the dark, submitting to the medical expertise of the doctor.
During the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York City last week, https://goo.gl/kK2RCe the world’s governments discussed the increasing dangers posed by AMR infections and doubled down on the need for national and international AMR action plans...
In a newly published analysis, the ECRI Institute reviewed 7,600 wrong-patient events in 181 hospitals. Roughly 9% of those errors resulted in a patient being hurt or dying, despite the fact that most of the identification mistakes were preventable.
The Joint Commission released its 2017 reporting requirements for ORYX, a performance measurement and improvement initiative for which facilities are required to collect and submit data on six sets of core measures.
One study by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) found that 14% of physicians have experienced a potential medication error due to their EHR in the past month. Another 14% said that the excessive amount of alerts had caused them to overlook something...
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that between 2003 and 2012, the number of hospitals hiring physicians jumped up by 13%. Despite this, the authors caution that the glut in physicians will have little impact on care quality.
