Articles Tagged With: errors
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New Checklist Offers Roadmap for Improved Diagnostic Performance
Researchers created 10 high-priority practices they maintain are key to promoting diagnostic excellence.
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Many ED Malpractice Claims Are Rooted in Poor Communication
Securing buy-in from hospital administrators to make investments to improve patient safety, including handoff communication in the ED, can be challenging. Compelling anecdotes about cases when things went terribly wrong can grab leaders’ attention. Showing hard numbers demonstrates the financial burden of medical malpractice.
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Too Many Scientific Articles End Up Retracted
Over five decades, the authors of a meta-analysis discovered guidelines represented a small percentage of total retractions (0.3%). Scientific misconduct (including data fabrication, plagiarism, and duplication) was found in 62.3% of retracted studies. The number of retractions and misconducts increased from 1980 to 2014, but declined after 2015. The median time from publication to retraction significantly decreased over the study period.
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Initiative Focuses on Patient Harm Caused by Diagnostic Errors
The initiative will establish a benchmarking system, which will allow EDs to find out how they compare to other facilities.
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Surgical Errors, Retained Sponges Remain Major Problems
Surgical errors can harm patients, and take an emotional toll on staff. It is important for surgery centers to create policies and procedures and train on how to handle and prevent adverse events.
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Specialty Pharmacists Play Important Role in Patient Safety
Specialty pharmacists can be influential with encouraging other pharmacists to improve patient safety. Those at a health system level work with many pharmacy departments. -
Tools Say Patient is Eligible, but Only Dental or Vision Is Covered
Many registrars have excellent eligibility verification software at their disposal. Still, some responses are interpreted incorrectly. Two factors make it harder to determine eligibility: lack of standardization of health plan insurance cards and inconsistency in the way returned results are formatted.
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Focus on Preventing Medication Errors in 2020
Surgery centers could mark 2020 as the year to focus on quality improvement projects to prevent medication errors. Accreditation agencies have published information that can help.
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Hartford HealthCare Touts Benefits of Storytelling in Quest to Reduce Serious Safety Events
Employees are working to learn from the mistakes of the past.
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Patient Safety Act Offers Peer Review Protections
If one proceeds carefully, much information gathered can be protected from the prying eyes of plaintiffs’ attorneys.