The number of assaults in hospitals and other healthcare workplaces are four times the level of all private-sector industries, perhaps because physicians are now less respected and healthcare is seen as a business, according to a report by the Wall…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care found an average of 25 injuries per 100 admissions, according to a New York Times report.
Noting that non-psychiatric patients are committing suicide in EDs and med/surg units, a new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert urges greater attention to risk of suicide and educating caregivers about warning signs, according to a Joint Commission release.
A new study reveals CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring overnight than those occurring during the day, according to a University of Pennsylvania news release.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the FDA, Harvard Medical School in Boston and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., took part in a study to test a computerized tracking system to find faulty medical devices, according to a…
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Training OR staff on how to work as a team markedly reduces hospital mortality rates, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers have developed and validated a system that could improve post-operative care by measuring patient recovery from surgery with general anesthesia, according to the study abstract published in the October issue of Anesthesiology.
The debate over whether CRNAs should be allowed to administer anesthesia without physician supervision has continued throughout the country on the heels of Colorado becoming the 16th state to opt out of the federal Medicare rule.
Like many other specialties, the practice of anesthesiology has suffered as of late due to reimbursement cuts, fear of malpractice and provider shortages. At the same time, technological advances are improving perioperative care and placing a greater emphasis on a…
Surgical patients with known heart disease risks who are given beta blockers before and after surgery have a significantly reduced chance of post-operative death compared to those not given beta blockers, according to a study by researches at San Francisco…