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At this year's annual conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, held in October in Washington, DC, one of the new discussions was on the top legal developments in bioethics in 2009.
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Handling mental illness during pregnancy can be a double-edged sword. Because of the scarcity of clinical research with pregnant women, there are no FDA-approved medications for treating such illnesses.
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The Joint Commission (TJC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights announced that "amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health care, "the organizations have developed a video titled "Improving Patient-Provider Communication."
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She presents on the topic all the time because, she says, it's a tough one for hospitals time- and data-intensive.
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Another committee? This doesn't have to be a frustrating item on your to-do list.
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If ED physicians and nurses could choose only one strategy for avoiding lawsuits, it should be to keep patient satisfaction levels high, say several experts.
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In 1999, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established a hospital Patient's Rights' Condition of Participation (CoP).
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According to The Joint Commission's John Herringer, associate director, standards interpretation group, its policy on patient "complaints" has not really changed.
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The Joint Commission has acknowledged confusion in the field between its Medicare condition-level follow-up survey and conditional accreditation status and is considering changing the names to make the distinction clearer.
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As far as its 2010 accreditation standards, The Joint Commission told Hospital Peer Review, there are not many changes. But that doesn't mean there's nothing for you to do, says Ode Keil, MS, MBA, president of Ode Keil Consulting Group.
