Quality & Errors

Six Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) grantees have been given $13.4 million to test new pediatric quality measures over the next four...Read More »

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (BOAQ) is publishing its articles on a weekly...Read More »

There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when...Read More »

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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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...Read More »

The Joint Commission released its 2017 reporting requirements for ORYX, a performance measurement and improvement initiative for which facilities...Read More »

One study by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) found that 14% of physicians have experienced a...Read More »

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...Read More »

The Mayo Clinic experienced a highly publicized case of drug diversion back in 2008, where a nurse was caught stealing fentanyl from patients...Read More »

John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals...Read More »