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Imagine going more than two years nearing three without a single hospital-acquired infection (HAI) in your intensive care unit (ICU).
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When the Supreme Court released its opinion upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the end of June, most of the commentary focused on what the law would mean to consumers.
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Every now and then at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto, Canada, there was talk about getting ventilated patients up and about even if they were still intubated.
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It happened six months later than first expected, but on July 1 organizations became responsible for meeting the requirements of the standards for patient-centered communications, Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals. An exception was the visitation standards, which went into effect July 1, 2011.
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It's been 17 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law, but despite that, there are still plenty of organizations that aren't complying with its rules and are ending up paying millions in fines for their errors.
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Three years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) each brought a proposal to the National Quality Forum (NQF) related to measuring surgical-site infections.
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If a genetic test reveals a patient is at high risk for cancer, the ordering physician may think it's important for this information to be shared with others in the family, but the patient may think otherwise.
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Careful stewardship of scarce resources remains an ethical obligation of physicians, but avoiding harm to patients is a higher priority, argues Howard Brody, MD, PhD, John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
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Low-income patients are less likely to sue physicians than patients with higher incomes, according to an analysis of litigation rates and medical malpractice claims.
