Hospital Peer Review – May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016
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Safety Culture Proven to Improve Quality
But how does a patient safety culture influence quality, and how do you know if you have instilled that culture throughout your organization?
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Study Shows Safety Culture Affects Hospital Quality
Hospitals usually focus on technical issues like surgeons’ skills and operating room equipment when seeking to improve surgery outcomes and overall quality. New research, however, is reinforcing the idea that a patient safety culture may be equally important in delivering high-quality patient care.
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Quality and Safety Promoted by Disclosing Errors to All Staff
Most hospitals have embraced the idea of disclosing medical errors to the patient and family members, but Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, goes a step further by informing all hospital staff about these incidents.
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Hospital Explains Errors with Duplicate Dose, Clonidine
A recent issue of the Safety Matters newsletter from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, includes stories about two errors that threatened patient safety. The incidents are typical of the errors shared publicly by the hospital.
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Strategies for Recruiting Peer Review Physicians
Getting physicians to critique their colleagues has always been a challenge, but in recent years challenged physicians have increasingly used expensive litigation and claims of antitrust violations to defend themselves. That has made some physicians even more reluctant to participate in peer review, but there are solutions.
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Senior Patients: Unique Expectations, Needs
Serving senior-aged patients can require a different approach, and hospitals won’t know if they’re meeting the needs of this population without a strategy that involves measuring satisfaction and quality.
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Quality Reporting Costs $15 Billion Annually
U.S. physician practices in four common specialties spend, on average, 785 hours per physician per year and $15.4 billion annually dealing with the reporting of quality measures, according to a new study.