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Improving patient safety can have a direct effect on the bottom line, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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A middle-aged woman went to the emergency department complaining of abdominal pains. After testing and evaluation indicated intestinal inflammation and a possible abdominal cyst along with diverticular disease, the hospital began the patient on a course of antibiotic therapy.
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A man underwent surgery following a heart attack. During the procedure, the seal on the oxygen tube inserted in the patient's throat broke, causing the oxygen to catch on fire.
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As much as risk managers may worry about the risk of patient suicide, they have to trust that the frontline clinicians are sufficiently skilled and dedicated to spotting patients at risk.
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Risk managers who have been pushing for more full disclosure of adverse events now have more backing and can argue that informing patients is a significant step closer to being considered the standard of care.
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One of the drawbacks for research conducted in this age of checklists and strong regulatory oversight is that IRBs and research institutions do what they're required to do and sometimes neglect to address the bigger picture, an ethics expert says.
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One of the bigger headaches for IRBs is having to sift through hundreds or thousands of unanticipated problems submissions when most of these should never have been reported.
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Intermountain Health Care Urban South Region of Provo, UT, revamped its IRB process with a goal of reducing its lengthy response time and to improve quality in IRB submissions.
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Public health researchers studying sensitive issues suicide, domestic violence, drug use sometimes find themselves dealing with more than just the survey questions at hand.
