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Taking the idea of full disclosure to another level, a Seattle hospital has posted a public apology to the victim of a medical error with apparently no regard to how that may affect the inevitable lawsuit from the family.
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After hosting the recent National Summit on Medical Abbreviations with several other organizations, JCAHO modified the 2005 requirements for meeting National Patient Safety Goal 2b Standardize the abbreviations, acronyms and symbols used throughout the organization, including a list of abbreviations, acronyms and symbols not to use.
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Thomson American Health Consultants has developed an influenza sourcebook to ensure you and your hospital are prepared for what could happen this flu season or the next.
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An elderly man diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis was prescribed methotrexate by his doctor. Although he immediately began to experience symptoms of methotrexate toxicity, the doctor failed to take the patients complaints seriously and refilled the prescription for another month. The man continued to experience the same symptoms and, two weeks later, he was rushed to an emergency department for treatment. The ED physicians were unable to prevent the mans death, which they attributed to methotrexate toxicity.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the first in a projected series of seven papers to provide guidance for covered entities.
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A reprieve from federal enforcement of annual fit-testing was greeted by some hospitals like a holiday present from Congress, but it has scarcely registered at other facilities.
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Industrial hygienists insist annual fit-testing is essential to the proper use of respirators. Infection control practitioners argue tuberculosis patients, once identified and isolated, pose little risk to health care workers. But perhaps they agree on one point: Hospitals are doing too much fit-testing.
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With only one-third of priority groups receiving the influenza vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged midseason vaccination and expanded the groups eligible for vaccination.
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How hospitals test health care workers for tuberculosis infection would change fundamentally for the first time in 10 years under draft guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided examples of how to assess risk and determine if a health care setting should be classified as low or medium. Here are three excerpts from the draft TB guidelines.
