Search results for "Patient Safety"
Hospital medicine around the world
The field is catching on in several countries outside the U.S., Canada and Europe. Although the health care systems and situations may differ, supporters’ reasons for wanting hospital medicine to flourish there are often the same, and the barriers are often similar, as well.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/world.htm
15 Jul 2009
Improving handoffs through better communication
Research has shown that speakers systematically overestimate how well their messages are understood by listeners, and assume a listener has all the same knowledge they do. Verbal updates and read-backs can help.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/handoffs.htm
15 Jul 2009
Are your patients at risk?
Dr. Peraino discusses four common causes of medical mistakes and offers tips on preventing them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/perspectives.htm
15 Aug 2009
Too much information
A medical student recounts her experience as a patient.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/student.htm
15 Sep 2009
Hospitalist Web site streamlines signouts, helps communication
At St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo., a hospitalist-developed Web site makes it easy to identify and contact each patient’s attending physician.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/success.htm
15 Sep 2009
Lost in transition
Medication discrepancies between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are common. Learn why and what you can do about it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/snf.htm
15 Sep 2009
A deviant approach to hospital challenges
Positive deviance is a bottom-up, rather than top-down, approach to solving seemingly intractable problems in an institution or a community. It's based on the observation that certain individuals or groups (positive deviants) have found better solutions to these problems than their peers have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/positive.htm
15 Nov 2009
Top Docs: Meet our 2009 Top Hospitalists
Welcome to our second annual Top Hospitalists issue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2009
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Explain how to assess and implement patient glucose control needs across the con-. ... patient safety; and suggesting strategies for safe and effectiveglycemic control from admission to discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/acph-200912-hyperglycemia.pdf
23 Nov 2009
Results pending at discharge often stay in limbo
Handoffs from inpatient to outpatient care are a known problem area in hospital medicine, and one of the biggest opportunities for improvement could involve results of tests pending at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/pending.htm
15 Dec 2009