Search results for "Patient Safety"
ACP honors outstanding chapter activities with John Tooker Evergreen Awards
Texas for Texas Medical Home Initiative. The Texas Medical Home Initiative emphasizes four key components: expanding patient access and engagement, improving chronic condition population management through use of patient registries, providing
June 2012
QD: News Every Day--Health care acquired infections the ire of WHO's new patient safety envoy
QD: News Every Day--Health care acquired infections the ire of WHO's new patient safety envoy. ... The World Health Organization's new patient safety envoy will take on health care acquired infections in his new role, he announced last week.
October 2021
Patient safety and suppositions
Patient safety and suppositions. Recently I went to the Maryland Patient Safety Conference as one of the Armstrong Institute clinical patient safety fellows. ... Rudy, of course, is a well-known patient-safety expert. Or at least I hope so, because I
October 2021
QD: News Every Day--health reform, H1N1 and patient safety
QD: News Every Day--health reform, H1N1 and patient safety. ACP Internist's daily digest of news and events continues. ... Wall Street Journal). In case you missed it. The New York Times recently interviewed Robert Wachter, FACP, about the patient safety
October 2021
Patient safety, Swiss cheese and the Secret Service
Patient safety, Swiss cheese and the Secret Service. I was listening to the news on my way to work last week, and heard a story about the review conducted after the ... The explanation also sounded familiar. It is a perfect example of the “Swiss
October 2021
Improving in-hospital handoffs | Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 News | ACP Internist
Any physicians who hand off patients may want to consider how well their messages are being understood, especially because patient safety is at stake. ... And in the hospital, any physicians who hand off patients may want to consider how well their
April 2019
On not being a hero
Naturally, the backlash against the hero came to medicine. We practitioners are most familiar with the theories of patient safety, which were born in the 1950s and 60s (from a long ... But the leveled-out hierarchy of patient safety doesn't actually exist
October 2021
Bigger is more dangerous?
Titled ”The Risks to Patient Safety from Health System Expansions,” it includes new threats to patient safety and suggests potential strategies for mitigating them, summarized in the table “System Expansion Risks ... to Patient Safety.”.
October 2021
QD: News Every Day--Hospital staff worried about culture of reporting mistakes
It was designed to assess hospital staff opinions about patient safety issues, medical errors, and event reporting. ... The survey includes 42 items that measure 12 areas of patient safety culture.
October 2021
Medical error--the third leading cause of death, or not nearly so simple?
What is this article actually about? The new article refers to research done over the last 2 decades, and most recently an article by NASA toxicologist and patient safety advocate John ... Patient safety is very, very important! I am glad that this
October 2021