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When a patient needs to be moved from a bed to a stretcher, do your nurses reach across for the draw sheet and pull? If so, theyre at risk for debilitating back injury.
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These are the overall rankings of lateral-transfer devices from a study by Andrea Baptiste and John Lloyd of the Patient Safety Center of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL.
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The draft tuberculosis guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked widely ranging comments with divergent opinions from those who think N95 filtering facepiece respirators are inadequate, to those who think they are unnecessary.
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Elderly patients pose special challenges when it comes to falls, so your prevention strategy must take into account the factors unique to this population. This summary is offered by a professor of physical therapy at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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Open discussion of medical errors and other liability issues actually can help drive claims down, not up, as many risk managers fear, says the president of Enhanced Claim and Risk Services in St. Louis.
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JCAHO has issued a call to reform the nations medical liability system, urging the current proposal for caps on noneconomic damages be expanded to pursue intermediate and long-term system changes which its experts say truly facilitate improvements in patient safety.
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The FDA recently approved a new device that the manufacturer says could dramatically reduce the incidence of wrong-site surgery by applying a microchip with detailed patient information directly to the planned operative site.
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Jury awards for medical-malpractice claims rose fractionally in recent months while awards for all personal-injury liabilities fell significantly, according to a report from Jury Verdict Research in Horsham, PA.
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JCAHO recently altered the 2005 requirements for meeting National Patient Safety Goal 2b that requires organizations to standardize abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used throughout the organization, including a list of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols not to use.
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Can a hospital subsidize physicians medical liability insurance without facing prosecution under the portion of the Social Security Act that addresses kickbacks?
