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Several days after a nurse gave an intramuscular (IM) injection to a patient with a bee sting, the patient returned complaining of hip pain and was diagnosed with piriformis syndrome. She sued the ED and claimed that the nurse negligently gave the IM injection in her right hip.
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Its heartbreaking when a child comes to the ED as a result of sexual abuse but how would you feel if something you did helped the perpetrator to go unpunished?
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When patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic pain from pancreatitis, migraines, cancer, fibromalgia, or other conditions go to an ED for help, pain management often is delayed or inadequate, says Elena Clifford, RN, an ED nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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During an unannounced survey at Baptist Hospital of Miami, surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) asked to come in the front door of the ED and follow the triage process, to be certain that patients were treated without regard for their ability to pay.
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At Deaconness Hospital in Evansville, IN, the ED was losing about $60,000 per month on lost charges for supplies. Does this sound familiar?
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is developing a how-to reference guide to help health care organizations in creating patient registries to track the outcomes of medical treatments, including drugs.
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Its hard to argue that the data from the first year of the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID), recently validated by CMS and reported publicly, were anything but impressive.
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Like many health care institutions across the country, Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh responded to the 1999 IOM report and recommendations by organizations such as the Leapfrog Group with the purchase of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system, anticipating that it would improve patient safety and outcomes.
