Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare. points, 81.8%

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

For example: In 2023, A Pennsylvania jury awarded $183 million to the family of a boy born with severe brain injuries due to a delayed C-section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Nuclear verdicts are becoming more common, growing more than 27% in 2023. These deviations can create grounds for litigation.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. In broad terms, it’s care management through teamwork.

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

When he assumed the role as the AMA’s 178th president on June 13, 2023, Jesse M. Their association (ACOG) wrote, “Today’s decision is a direct blow to bodily autonomy, reproductive health, patient safety, and health equity in the United States. Question: Would Healthy Women Create a Healthy Democracy?

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