Articles Tagged With: prevention
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TJC Updates Workplace Violence Prevention Standards
As of Jan. 1, 2022, accredited facilities must educate, train, monitor, and assess more often. -
Using Procalcitonin to Limit Antibiotic Treatment for Sepsis Reduces Infection-Related Adverse Events
By shortening the duration of antibiotic therapy, a procalcitonin-guided protocol decreased the rate of infection-associated adverse effects, decreased costs, and reduced mortality in patients with sepsis. -
CDC Report Highlights Ongoing Youth Mental Health Struggles
Agency notes rising number of related emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts between early 2019 and early 2021. -
U.S. Slips in Blood Pressure Management
After years of improvement in this area, investigators recently observed troubling decline in rate control. -
ED Violence Means Possible Liability Exposure for Hospital
During litigation, two important questions will arise: How did the hospital keep the patient safe? Was the hospital not doing reasonable things that other hospitals were doing? -
Denial Prevention Tactics Are Front End-Focused
Revenue cycle departments spend lots of time and money appealing denied claims. However, some hospitals are diverting resources to the front end instead. -
Treat Comorbid Substance Use with Motivational Interviewing, Navigational Assistance
Research has shown a highly personalized intervention designed for hospitalized patients with comorbid substance use problems can significantly reduce subsequent readmissions and ED visits. -
Include Cognitive Psychology in the Discussion of Diagnostic Errors
To effectively address diagnostic improvement, clinicians should understand some concepts around how people reason and the common pitfalls that can lead to errors. -
Charting a Better Way Forward in Addressing Diagnostic Errors
Preventing diagnostic errors has proven difficult. Many of these errors are captured through passive reporting, and systems are not in place to help clinicians learn from such errors. Using active surveillance could uncover more errors, bring those to the attention of clinicians, and provide a teaching moment (not a punishment moment) to prevent those errors from repeating. -
Drospirenone and Estetrol Tablets (Nextstellis)
Nextstellis can be prescribed to women of reproductive potential to prevent pregnancy.