Search results for "Patient Safety"
A better team, with the same outcomes
Why did only nurses see an improvement from a teamwork intervention at four hospitals? A hospitalist researcher offers his thoughts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/20/a-better-team-with-the-same-outcomes.htm
20 Dec 2023
In the News
Regionalized care teams and patient safety, guidelines for enteral nutrition in the critically ill.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2016
December issue online and in the mail
This issue highlights the challenge of giving residents both supervision and autonomy and preparing for nerve agent exposure, along with coverage from multiple clinical conferences.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/12/5.htm
12 Dec 2018
National survey finds that 50% of large IM residency programs have hospitalist rotations
Most of the hospitalist rotations were one month in duration and included second- and/or third-year residents. The length of existence of the rotations ranged from one to 15 years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/04/2.htm
4 Apr 2018
Inpatient team structure affected resource utilization but not clinical outcomes
While a study found similar costs, length of stay, 30-day readmissions, and inpatient mortality among teams with hospitalists, advanced practice clinicians, or residents at one academic medical center, hospitalist teams discharged patients more efficiently with fewer consults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/25/4.htm
25 Nov 2020
Veterans Health Administration hospitals outperformed other facilities on mortality, safety measures
According to an analysis of Hospital Compare data, Veterans Health Administration hospitals provided the best care in most hospital referral regions and rarely provided the worst care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/12/4.htm
12 Dec 2018
When patients wander
Hospitals need detailed policies on patient elopement to avoid this sentinel event and protocols for responding when it does happen.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/when-patients-wander.htm
15 Feb 2018
New rules for diagnosis
Experts propose diagnostic competencies and principles.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/new-rules-for-diagnosis.htm
15 Jan 2019
The new, improved M&M
Morbidity and mortality conferences are starting to be seen more as a potential opportunity to address patient safety issues and reduce preventable errors than as education- and blame-oriented.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/the-new-improved-m-and-m.htm
15 Jul 2018
The impact of deferred hospital care during COVID-19
Experts are looking at where the patients went and what happens next.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/the-impact-of-deferred-hospital-care-during-covid-19.htm
15 Feb 2021