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Murder allegations against a physician and two nurses at a New Orleans hospital have stirred up the health care industry, especially the hospitals and other providers that suffered through the dire conditions after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005.
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The attorney representing Anna Pou, MD, accused of murdering patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, says the doctor should be lauded for her work in the flooded hospital, not charged with any crime.
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The evidence released so far concerning the suspicious deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans has John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, thinking ...
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This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing off a patient from clinician to another.
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A good relationship with in-house counsel will help you both to your jobs better, especially if you are employed by a large, complex health care organization.
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A man arrived at the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. While doctors attempted to find the cause of the pain, an inadvertent dislodging of the man's intravenous line (IV) caused swelling in his arm muscle...
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The president of the American Society for Health-care Risk Management (ASHRM), Peggy B. Martin, notes how the Tenet Healthcare Corp., the parent company of Memorial Medical Center, seems to be distancing itself from the accused clinicians.
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The murder accusations against clinicians at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans are another blow to the troubled Tenet Healthcare Corp., based in Dallas.
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Patient handoff now is known to be a high-risk time, with the transfer of responsibilities opening up the potential for misunderstandings, incomplete information, and other failures of communication that can threaten patient safety.
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While SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) technique is a fairly straightforward concept, implementing the methodology can be more difficult than you might expect.
