Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Background: Acutely deteriorating patients are entitled to the best possible care, which includes early recognition and timely appropriate intervention to reduce adverse events, unnecessary admissions to intensive care, and/or cardiac arrest. Aim: To reduce the number of poor outcomes for surgical patients with a National Early Warning Score (NEWS) score ?

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Healthcare Associates

JUNE 17, 2021

Why is My Hair Falling Out? Hair loss may be caused by genetics or by medical conditions, including diabetes and lupus. Certain medications and treatments may also contribute to hair loss, such as antidepressants and radiation therapy. Knowing why your hair may be falling out can help you determine whether you should seek treatment or make lifestyle changes as needed to stop or slow hair loss.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

A nonpunitive approach to safety event reporting and analysis is an important dimension of healthcare organization safety culture. A system-based safety event review process, one focused on understanding and improving the conditions in which individuals do their work, generally leads to more effective and sustainable safety solutions. On the contrary, the more typical person-based approach, that blames individuals for errors, often results in unsustainable and ineffective safety solutions, but t

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American College of Healthcare Sciences

JUNE 17, 2021

How do you celebrate your graduation when instead of walking across the stage, you are taking part in a virtual ceremony? Even if you are not able to have an in-person ceremony this year, there are still lots of ways for you to celebrate your hard work! . 1. Make sure to sign up for your virtual graduation ceremony. You don’t want to miss your virtual ceremony, so make sure you are signed up!

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Previous research has shown that patients in infectious-agent isolation are at greater risk for certain types of safety-related events. We conducted a study to explore the relationship between the various types of events that occur in an isolation environment and the associated factors, which may have implications for the likelihood of the event and severity of patient harm.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2021

We’ve long know that “the patient” has been an under-utilized resource in the U.S. healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. Today, with the insights of Alexandra Drane (Founder of ARCHANGELS ) and Dr. Nirav Shah (of Stanford University), we know that caregivers are among the most over-utilized resources in the U.S. healthcare system — overused, o

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Health Business Group

JUNE 17, 2021

CytImmune CEO Saba Malak. I first encountered Saba Malak when I was a summer consultant at Boston Consulting Group and he was a new MBA. We stayed in touch and when I became chairman of Advanced Practice Strategies a few years later, Saba joined the board as lead investor. Since then, Saba has invested in various healthcare and biotech companies in the public and private markets.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Introduction Blood transfusions are lifesaving treatments which require critical attention to processes and details. If processes are not followed, grievous errors can lead to sentinel events. A review of investigations completed due to reported events will show the error trends associated with systems used throughout the blood transfusion process. Methods This study employed root cause analyses (RCAs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to review the events leading to blood transfus

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States. In addition to over 3.9 million acute care records, PA-PSRS has collected more than 357,000 long-term care (LTC) healthcare-associated infection reports since 2009. A total of 26,331 infections were reported in 2020, representing a 7.0% decrease from the prior year.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Pennsylvania is the only state that requires acute healthcare facilities to report all events of harm or potential for harm. With over 3.9 million acute care event reports, the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Of the 278,548 patient safety event reports submitted by Pennsylvania’s acute care facilities in 2020, 97.2% were from hospitals and 2.7% were from ambulatory su

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

As the journal of the Patient Safety Authority, committed to the vision of “safe healthcare for all patients,” Patient Safety (ISSN 2689-0143) is fully open access and highlights original research, advanced analytics, and hot topics in healthcare. The mission of this publication is to inform and advise clinicians, administrators, and patients on preventing harm and improving safety, by providing evidence-based, original research; editorials addressing current and sometimes controversial topics;

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

If I had one superpower it would be to influence patient safety in the same way that Elon Musk can influence cryptocurrency. I would tweet #patientsafety #bestpractices #implementthem and suddenly patient harm—all of it—would plummet within minutes. But the rest of us must work a lot harder to effect such change, and one could argue that change is especially difficult in healthcare.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Steffanie Strathdee shares how bacteriophages—viruses that specifically target bacteria—can help us win the fight against antibiotic-resistant pathogens, including the one that almost killed her husband.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

In March 2020, I was an extremely healthy, fit anesthesiologist in my latter 60s working in quality and high-reliability safety. I made one last trip to the East Coast to socialize with clients before halting travel due to the impending COVID pandemic. I was quite careful to avoid people, socially distance, and stay in empty hotels normally used by international flight crews.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Anyone who has worked in the clinical setting with telemetry monitoring recognizes this constant sound representing a patient’s heartbeat. Just as a guard stands watch, it reassures us that a patient is safe and well. However, over time the sounds of telemetry can also become background noise. What happens when the noise stops? Do you notice? Alarm fatigue occurs when individuals are desensitized to the overabundance of alarms, leading to a delayed response to actionable alarms.

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