The following content is sponsored by 3M. For years hospitals have carefully managed expenses in response to various cost containment initiatives. As a result, many of the most obvious opportunities for leaner operations have been leveraged. However, the pressures to…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Top 10 Patient Safety Issues for 2014Patient safety is a serious issue. Click to continue » Reducing Readmissions: How a MacArthur ‘Genius’ is Revolutionizing Care in One of the Most Dangerous Towns in America Camden, N.J. has…
Clorox has released new two-in-one CHG skin cleansing kits, with enough materials for two pre-procedural skin cleanses and separated by a perforated seal.
Very few in healthcare would deny the industry today is plagued by variability, error and high costs. In fact, most would argue that the organizations that figure out how to remove this variability and error, while better coordinating care, will…
Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting will take place May 15-17, 2014 in Chicago.
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In April 2013, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert for "alarm fatigue" among hospital staff — an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices that can compromise patient safety.
CMS recently released data on five of the 33 quality measures tracked by 141 accountable care organizations in 2012, revealing that ACOs had varying success controlling patients' diabetes and heart disease.
Patients with glioblastoma multiforme, malignant brain tumors, readmitted in 30 days of admission experience shorter survival rates than patients who are not readmitted, according to a study in Neurosurgery.
While patients undergoing radiation chemotherapy for advanced head and neck cancer in inpatient and outpatient settings experienced the same clinical outcomes, outpatients saw much lower costs, according to research by the Cleveland Clinic presented at the 2014 Multidisciplinary Head and…
Researchers have developed a risk scale for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to identify clinical characteristics that heighten the likelihood of adverse events, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.