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Better teamwork. It sounds like a simple strategy, but this goal has proved surprisingly elusive for many health care organizations.
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The greater amount of top leadership involvement in a root cause analysis (RCA), the greater the likelihood of significant patient safety improvements. Senior leaders don't need to be appointed to RCA teams but some level of leadership oversight and intervention is important throughout the life of the investigation.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing a survey instrument to measure how effectively hospitals address patients' health literacy needs.
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Has your organization ever conducted a "Code Adam" drill, which simulates how staff would respond if there were an attempt to abduct a baby from the obstetrics ward during a fire drill?
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So what's the answer to avoiding patient awareness under anesthesia?
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In general, surgery centers will need to get back to basics in terms of cost accounting, budgeting, and contract management, in order to prepare for the new Medicare payment system, says Craig Jeffries, Esq., executive director of the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC).
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In the future, minimally invasive surgery may be performed though the rectum, with an incision made in the large intestine, according to surgeons at New YorkPresbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center who recently removed a woman's gall bladder through her vagina.
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With National Public Radio, Oprah, and other media outlets covering patient awareness during anesthesia, many outpatient surgery providers report an increasing number of questions about the issue from their patients.
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An insurance company has been ordered to reimburse a father for his teenage son's gynecomastia surgery after it had refused on the grounds that it was a cosmetic procedure.
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Who hasn't had a significant surgeon leave your facility for greener pastures? What about that staff member whom you spend so much time with, who you develop into a world-class employee who seemed to master every task, only to see him or her lured or driven away to a competitor?
