Search results for "Patient Safety"
Duty hours may have no effect on patient safety, resident well-being, care continuity
A randomized trial did not find a patient safety benefit from shorter duty schedules, a study found. ... Researchers studied how 12-, 16-, and 24-hour shifts among residents in the intensive care unit (ICU) affected patient safety, resident well-being,
February 2015
Patient safety vs. physician frustration: Finding a balance for medication alerts
Q: What's next for your program—customized alerts for other patient groups, other geriatrics interventions?
November 2010
CME credits available in patient safety supplement
The project leaders identified 41 patient safety strategies and conducted reviews of many of them. ... In addition, the March 5 issue includes Annals' first article in “graphic novel” format, which also deals with a patient safety issue—a missed
March 2013
Regionalized care teams may not lead to improvements in patient safety, study finds
T]hus, another way to state our results is that we were able to increase the daily volume of patients without any significant decreases in patient safety,” they wrote. ... Nevertheless, the results on patient safety were less than desired.”.
March 2016
Computerized provider order entry systems and patient safety
Computerized provider order entry has a promising, yet unproven, future as a tool for improving overall patient care and safety. ... CPOE has a promising, yet unproven, future as a tool for improving overall patient care and safety.
August 2011
ACP, New York chapter to collaborate to improve patient safety
Our goal is to change the culture of health care into one that learns from mistakes and shares best practices in patient safety,” Dr. ... It will link registry reports of near misses to educational resources that will help clinical teams strengthen
June 2012
Speaking up for patient safety
Boston and president of the National Patient Safety Foundation, which commemorated Patient Safety Awareness Week this month (March 2-8). ... said Frank Federico, RPh, one of IHI's directors and patient safety experts.
March 2014
The next patient safety target: misdiagnosis
Meanwhile, The Joint Commission plans to make diagnostic-error reduction a patient safety priority. ... Castillo added. “It might be a National Patient Safety Goal, it might be a call for more research, or it might be performance measures.”.
December 2013
Attending physician workload may affect teaching effectiveness, patient safety
For patient outcomes, higher workload and longer length of stay were significantly more likely to be associated with a patient safety indicator event. ... However, they concluded that the workload of attending physicians may have an adverse effect on
January 2016
Do you need a checklist?
A 2017 review in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found only nine randomized controlled trials reporting patient safety outcomes of checklist interventions across multiple segments of care, such as surgery, medication ... if it's later discovered that
February 2021