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Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation creates some legal risks that didn't exist with paper charting. Information that doesn't accurately represent patient encounters is more easily added to the medical record.
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A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline that helps physicians identify children most likely to benefit from tympanostomy tubes, provide the best care before and after surgery, and improve counseling and education for parents was published in a supplement to the July edition of the journal Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.
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Clinicians should take care in online communications including the electronic posting of information and the exchange of information via computers and phones.
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When doctors, nurses, and other operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heartbeat, or other crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75% less likely to miss a critical clinical step.
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As of Jan. 1, 2014, hospitals and critical access hospitals will be expected to begin phase one of a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on clinical alarm safety (NPSG.06.01.01).
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Looking for a quick and easy way to raise money? The auxiliary for Covenant Hospital Plainview (TX) raised about $12,000 for the purchase of equipment and conversion of hospital space into a same-day surgery room.
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As the number of aging patients having outpatient surgery continues to increase, patient fitness is more important than chronological age, according to researchers.
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As pediatric specialists become increasingly aware that surgical anesthesia might have lasting effects on the developing brains of young children, new research suggests the threat also might apply to adult brains.
