In what could be called one of the better Sentinel Event Alerts (SEA) released in recent years, The Joint Commission has taken aim at tubing misconnections in its August 20 release of "Managing risk during transition to new ISO tubing connector standards."
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...
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?
A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Premier Safety Institute found that 78% of hospitals prescribe antibiotics in an inappropriate or redundant manner.
