Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting will take place May 15-17, 2014 in Chicago.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
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…
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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.
The National Patient Safety Foundation has announced the creation of the NPSF Health Leaders Speakers Bureau, a panel of thought leaders and advocates for patient safety who are also members of the NPSF Governing Boards and Lucian Leape Institute.
Data from the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and the American Family Children's Hospital, both in Madison, found more patients will be billed as observation status under the two-midnight rule, opposite of CMS' prediction that more patients will be…
Prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy with different techniques all experienced similar readmission rates, according to a Renal and Urology News report.
Premier's QUEST Collaborative has announced $11.65 billion in savings and the avoidance of 136,375 deaths in its participating hospitals over the past five-and-a-half years.