50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety
Becker’s Hospital Review has named “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety,” which includes individuals at national organizations, universities and healthcare organizations working to improve patient safety. Click to continue »
How Can Healthcare Organizations Measure “Soft” Aspects of Patient Safety?
One of the keys to performance improvement is collecting and analyzing data on different measures. Click to continue »
Turning Healthcare in to a High Reliability Industry: Memorial Hermann Shares 5 Steps
High reliability industries are everywhere; most people just don’t realize it — they range from amusement parks and zoos to oil drilling rigs, air traffic control and nuclear submarines. Click to continue »
The U.S. Health Disadvantage: A Crisis That We Must Address Together Today
A new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine provides a bleak outlook for the country’s health. Click to continue »
Patient Experience Roundtable: Raising and Maintaining Patient Satisfaction
One of the driving forces behind the changes taking place in the healthcare industry is the increasing importance of patient experience. Click to continue »
The Secret to Better Infection Control Compliance: Move Beyond Secret Shoppers
When North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. increased its hand hygiene compliance rate in an intensive care unit from less than 10 percent to more than 85 percent in less than four weeks and maintained that rate for three years, it knew it hit upon something big: It had discovered a superior way to monitor and improve infection control compliance. Click to continue »
Study: Hand Hygiene Poster Increased Likelihood of Washing Hands
A hand hygiene poster increased the likelihood men would wash their hands, according to a study in Human Communication Research. Click to continue »
13 Practical Steps to Prevent HAIs
Public and private sector healthcare-associated infection prevention partners discussed ways to enhance the HAI data supply chain — collecting, reporting and analyzing HAI data — at HHS’ 2012 HAI Data Summit May 30-31 in Kansas City, Mo. Click to continue »
Report: U.S. Made Little Progress on Readmission Rates 2008-2010
The readmission rates in hospitals across the U.S. have not changed significantly from 2008 to 2010, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based on data from the Dartmouth Atlas Project. Click to continue »
Study: Income Inequality Linked to Higher Readmissions
U.S. states with the highest income inequality have an estimated 40,000 extra readmissions than states with the lowest income inequality, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Click to continue »
Avoidable Readmissions by Numbers: 8 Statistics
Potentially avoidable readmissions make up 10 percent to 14 percent of all admissions for most hospitals, or roughly 45 percent of them, according to an infographic from Objective Health. Click to continue »
Palliative Care: Why It Has Become a Growing Specialty Within Hospital
There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. Click to continue »
Top 10 Most Common Sentinel Events
The Joint Commission reviewed 901 sentinel events in 2012. Click to continue »
Top 58 Hospitals Patients Rated 9 or 10 in HCAHPS
Here is a list of 58 non-specialty, acute-care hospitals with the highest percentage of patients who rated their hospitals a nine or 10 on a zero-to-10 scale in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey. Click to continue »
