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When you submit quality reports to hospital administrators, do you gloss over cost and financial issues or address them head-on? This could be a powerful tool to obtain additional resources for data analysis activities or corrective actions, says Judy Homa-Lowry, RN, MS, CPHQ, president of Homa-Lowry Healthcare Consulting based in Metamora, MI.
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As a part of their overall patient safety program, many health care organizations require that managers submit corrective action reports for every significant incident in their department.
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Have you ever included a patients personal information in statistical studies on specific diagnoses for JCAHO core measures and shared this with staff via e-mail? Do you ever e-mail colleagues about a patients outcome if that patient was seen at another institution?
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Its the moment of truth: After months of preparation, inservices, and mock patient tracers, you finally get the phone call: Surveyors from the Joint Commission have arrived at your hospital.
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What were you told about this patient by the previous caregiver during reports? What are you doing for this patient? What are you going to tell the next caregiver about this patient?
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While some researchers, AIDS advocates, and public health officials still debate the wisdom of publicizing the recent New York City case of multidrug resistant HIV that progressed rapidly to AIDS, the one thing everyone can agree upon is that multidrug resistance in newly diagnosed patients is a major problem.
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An HIV diagnosis lowers risky sexual behavior, but not by as much as public health officials might hope, new research suggests.
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New research about HIV patients finds emotional abuse as a child is one of the strongest predictors of poor adherence, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
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As clinicians, researchers, and public health officials become increasingly concerned about the development of multidrug resistant HIV, its clear that more research and interventions need to be designed to improve adherence to antiretroviral treatment regimens.
