Blue Chip Surgical Partners Vice President of Operations Regina E. Dolsen, RN, BSN, MA, outlines eight steps ambulatory surgery centers can take to reduce the likelihood of errors with look-alike/sound-alike drugs.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins found coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, according to a hospital news release.
Although contact precautions are necessary in some circumstances, some infection prevention specialists and healthcare providers believe there are limitations to the contact precautions approach and that the practices may actually be harmful to patients in some cases, according to an…
Recent testimony on proposed Senate Bill 209 suggests strong support for the new measure, which seeks to continue public hospital reporting of sentinel events and also require disclosure of where those medical errors occurred, according to a KTNV news report.
Physician Surgery Center of Downey (Calif.) has received accreditation from the Institute for Medical Quality, according to a Downey Patriot report.
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Fifteen safety initiatives in commercial aviation could improve patient safety in the healthcare industry, according to a report in the Milbank Quarterly.
A Nevada urologist who had his medical license suspended after he was accused of reusing single-use endocavity needle guides during biopsy procedures has taken out a paid advertisement in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which he blames an unnamed equipment…
Texas Hospital Administrator Pleads Guilty to Abuse of Official Capacity in Nurse Whistleblower Case
A former Texas hospital administrator has pleaded guilty to abuse of official capacity and will serve jail time following his decision to fire two nurses who filed an anonymous complaint with the Texas Medical Board against a hospital physician, according…
An unannounced follow-up FDA inspection of University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., suggests the hospital took a number of steps to improve its infection control practices after CMS dinged it for noncompliance to infection control and housekeeping standards late last year,…
Healthcare providers who conduct regular reviews of comparative drug effectiveness should do so on a yearly basis for rapidly developing topics and biannually for other topics, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.