Search results for "Patient Safety"
Rapid response systems are in place, but do they work?
After establishing rapid response systems, hospitals must follow through by measuring their effectiveness.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/rrt.htm
15 May 2011
Our Internal Medicine Meeting issue
Learn about alcohol withdrawal, opioid prescribing, decompensated heart failure, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jun 2017
Letter from the Editor
With stroke, there’s a common saying that time lost is brain lost.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/editor.htm
15 Jun 2008
Coding malnutrition
A reader responds to the Coding Corner on malnutrition, published in our January issue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/letters-to-the-editor.htm
15 Jun 2017
Cardiac telemetry monitoring
Our columnist discusses “alarm fatigue.”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/07/tech.htm
15 Jul 2010
How hospitalists can avoid diagnostic errors
A patient safety expert offers advice on improving diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/q-a-diagnostic-error.htm
15 Mar 2016
Silencing text-message interruptions
A system change allowed more concentration on medical education.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/success-story-silencing-text-message-interruptions.htm
15 Oct 2019
Internists release policy paper on medical liability crisis
ACP released a policy paper on the medical liability crisis, which continues to have a profound effect on the medical system. “Medical Liability Reform—Innovative Solutions for a New Health Care System” provides an update of the medical liability landscape as well as state-based activity on medical liability reform and summarizes traditional and newer reform proposals and their ability to affect system efficiency and encourage patient safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/04/16/7.htm
16 Apr 2014
Medical quality: What's it all mean?
As medical students, we've heard the phrase “medical quality” thrown around quite a bit. It's reasonable to wonder what all the fuss is about, and how it applies at this stage in a physician's career.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/07/student.htm
15 Jul 2010
ACC pathway offers guidance on managing patients presenting to the ED with chest pain
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) assessed the available clinical decision pathways for chest pain and advised on the use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin to avoid unnecessary testing in patients at low risk for acute coronary syndrome.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/19/free/acc-pathway-offers-guidance-on-managing-patients-presenting-to-the-ed-with-chest-pain.htm
19 Oct 2022