Cybersecurity threats are real and affect all healthcare teams

November 15, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 11
Cybersecurity, Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Technology and Equipment

These threats are everyone’s game, and that means anyone in charge of life safety and healthcare security from a physical and technical...Read More »

Six strategies to reduce patient discharge and care transition risk

October 25, 2022
Medical Environment Update - Volume 32 Issue 10
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

The U.S. healthcare staffing crisis is severely impacting patients. Among other effects, it is causing a dramatic increase in the length of...Read More »

Addressing antimicrobial resistance following COVID-19

September 27, 2022
Medical Environment Update - Volume 32 Issue 9
COVID-19, Infection Control, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management

Before COVID-19, deaths from antimicrobial resistance were headed in the right direction, decreasing by nearly 30% in hospitals between 2012 and...Read More »

Telehealth diagnoses match in-person clinical visit diagnoses in 86.9% of cases, study finds

September 20, 2022
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 16 Issue 28
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Telemedicine

The recent research article, which was published by JAMA Network Open, examines data collected from more than 2,000 Mayo Clinic patients...Read More »

Six strategies to reduce patient discharge and care transition risk

September 6, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 9
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

The U.S. healthcare staffing crisis is severely impacting patients. Among other effects, it is causing a dramatic increase in the length of...Read More »

Five things healthcare organizations can do to improve patient engagement and quality of care

September 6, 2022
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 16 Issue 36
Leadership, Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Technology and Equipment, Telemedicine

Most healthcare providers understand the importance of patient engagement. In ...Read More »

Care coordination and the labor shortage: How we can prepare

August 23, 2022
Medical Environment Update - Volume 32 Issue 8
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Staff Shortage

Today’s care coordination is often a manual and time-consuming process that depends on hard-copy patient lists, notes, and other physical...Read More »

Addressing antimicrobial resistance following COVID-19

August 23, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 8
COVID-19, Infection Control, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management

Before COVID-19, deaths from antimicrobial resistance were headed in the right direction, decreasing by nearly 30% in hospitals between 2012 and...Read More »

Q&A: What to know about the 2022 pneumonia guide-lines update

August 16, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 8
Infection Control, Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety

PSMJ spoke with Bradley T. Truax, MD, principal consultant of the Truax Group, about the guidelines and about general pneumonia...Read More »

Q&A: Antibiotic indications

August 9, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 8
Infection Control, Lab Safety, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management

Despite being a best practice and one of the elements of CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship, very few healthcare organizations have...Read More »

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