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The times, they are a changin'. Surgical patients used to arrive at hospitals the day before surgery, where staff did all the prep work to ensure patients were as clean as possible to avoid post-surgical infections.
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With almost 80% of cell phone owners reporting they use text messaging, it is no surprise that physicians are doing the same.
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After a cautious and rigorous analysis of national malpractice claims, Johns Hopkins patient safety researchers estimate that a surgeon in the United States leaves a foreign object such as a sponge or a towel inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week, performs the wrong procedure on a patient 20 times a week, and operates on the wrong body site 20 times a week.
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A program to decrease surgical infections in knee, hip, and back procedures is a winner of the 2012 Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Awards. The award for surgical/procedural care is given annually by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC Institute). An initiative to increase patient satisfaction garnered honorable mention.
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There are several disparate areas in which following a vendor or consultant's recommendations could lead to liability for a provider or facility, warns Henry C. Fader, JD, an attorney at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.
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Part of my job is to review technology: hardware, software, web applications, cell phone apps, and the like. What a sweet job, right?
