Emergency departments are busier than ever, with more than 136 million patient visits in 2011, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. hospitals are making headway in preventing adverse events, with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimating that 1.3 million fewer patients were harmed from 2010 to 2013.
The Joint Commission recently released a new chapter to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) entitled Patient Safety Systems. The chapter is intended to encourage organizations to build more high-reliability environments, specifically working to promote and foster high-...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
Editor's note: In this new feature, BOJ advisor Jodi Eisenberg, MHA, CPHQ, CPMSM, CSHA, manager of accreditation, clinical compliance, and policy management for Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
Last month, we looked at what the international community could do in the face of the current Ebola outbreak and addressed many fears and concerns in the healthcare community about what the outbreak meant for us here in the U.S. Since that time, perhaps unsurprisingly, we have had...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
