Articles Tagged With: errors
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Initiative Focuses on Patient Harm Caused by Diagnostic Errors
The initiative will establish a benchmarking system, which will allow EDs to find out how they compare to other facilities.
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Surgical Errors, Retained Sponges Remain Major Problems
Surgical errors can harm patients, and take an emotional toll on staff. It is important for surgery centers to create policies and procedures and train on how to handle and prevent adverse events.
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Specialty Pharmacists Play Important Role in Patient Safety
Specialty pharmacists can be influential with encouraging other pharmacists to improve patient safety. Those at a health system level work with many pharmacy departments. -
Tools Say Patient is Eligible, but Only Dental or Vision Is Covered
Many registrars have excellent eligibility verification software at their disposal. Still, some responses are interpreted incorrectly. Two factors make it harder to determine eligibility: lack of standardization of health plan insurance cards and inconsistency in the way returned results are formatted.
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Focus on Preventing Medication Errors in 2020
Surgery centers could mark 2020 as the year to focus on quality improvement projects to prevent medication errors. Accreditation agencies have published information that can help.
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Hartford HealthCare Touts Benefits of Storytelling in Quest to Reduce Serious Safety Events
Employees are working to learn from the mistakes of the past.
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Patient Safety Act Offers Peer Review Protections
If one proceeds carefully, much information gathered can be protected from the prying eyes of plaintiffs’ attorneys.
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AORN Releases Updated Guideline Regarding Team Communication
Communication breakdowns can be a factor in patients’ adverse events, data show.
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Pediatric Medication Safety
Our smallest patients are the most vulnerable to medication errors. An awareness of potential vulnerabilities when prescribing in this population is essential. The authors discuss when medication errors are particularly likely, common types of errors, and strategies to minimize the potential for errors.
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Wrong-patient Errors Can Lead to Death, But They Can Be Prevented
About 9% of the wrong-patient events studied for a just-released report led to temporary or permanent harm or, in some cases, death.