Search results for "Patient Safety"
How to handle biased patients
Hospitalists have developed strategies for these problematic encounters.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/how-to-handle-biased-patients.htm
15 Jun 2020
De-Mentored
Learn how not to mentor.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/newmans-notions-de-mentored.htm
15 Mar 2021
CDC proposes 12 draft recommendations for prescribing opioids
The agency is accepting public comment until Jan. 13.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/12/23/4.htm
23 Dec 2015
FUMBLE!
Football and hospital medicine are not so different.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/newmans-notions-fumble.htm
15 Jul 2020
Resident handoff quality, adverse event rate improved after I-PASS implementation
Across 32 hospitals, major and minor handoff-related reported adverse events fell by nearly 50% following implementation of the verbal and written handoff communication improvement program in general pediatric and internal medicine units.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/free/resident-handoff-quality-adverse-event-rate-improved-after-i-pass-implementation.htm
9 Nov 2022
Creating a universal suicide screening program
One hospital built an algorithm for suicide screening into its electronic health record.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/success-story-universal-suicide-screening.htm
15 Mar 2018
Computer points out patients who need a visit
Nurses check with a machine learning program every six hours to identify ward patients at risk of death or ICU admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/05/computer-points-out-patients-who-need-a-visit.htm
5 Apr 2023
May 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/
February 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/
January 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/