This weekend I had the pleasure to attend to the Patient Safety Movement's Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Patient Safety Movement is a grassroots movement that seeks to get to zero preventable deaths by medical errors by 2020.…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
U.S. News & World Report Managing Editor Ben Harder announced yesterday that the methodology for next year’s closely watched Best Hospitals ratings will give more weight to patient safety indicators. Announcing the move at the Patient Safety Movement Patient Safety…
Fuller inpatient units may be associated with lower mortality, according to a study published in the International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare.
Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City was able to reduce waiting times ny one hour for 50 percent of emergency department patients in need of an inpatient bed, maximizing resources and improving patient safety. Read the rest of…
Variation is the enemy of highly reliable healthcare. This was the crux of one of my favorite articles of the past couple years, Dr. Atul Gawande's "Big Med," which appeared in The New Yorker. It was also the leading topic…
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Increasing service capacity may actually increase congestion as a result of increased resource availability, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School.
Minor complications following ambulatory surgery — such as post-operative pain, nausea, vomiting and bleeding — occur at predictable rates. For example, vomiting occurs in 10 to 20 percent of patients, nausea in 10 to 40 percent and incisional pain in…
Hospital-acquired pneumonia is predicable with a short list of risk factors, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Patient education results in the greatest magnitude reduction of unnecessary emergency department use, though more studies are published investigating the effect of patient financial incentives and managed care on reducing unnecessary ED use, according to a study published in Academic…
An accountable care organization launched in 2012 by Blue Shield of California, Modesto, Calif.-based Doctors Medical Center and AllCare Independent Physician Association, improved on four quality benchmarks in its first year, according to a California Healthline report.