Search results for "Patient Safety"
Another way to detect breakdowns in care
A program encouraged patients to report problems that arose during hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/another-way-to-detect-breakdowns-in-care.htm
15 Aug 2020
Another way to detect breakdowns in care
A program encouraged patients to report problems that arose during hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/success-story-another-way-to-detect-breakdowns-in-care.htm
15 Aug 2020
FUMBLE!
Football and hospital medicine are not so different.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/newmans-notions-fumble.htm
15 Jul 2020
Med students used donuts to improve opioid prescribing
Students led the way in an effort to reduce opioid overuse.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/success-story-med-students-used-donuts-to-improve-opioid-prescribing.htm
15 Jul 2020
Errors less likely among ICU residents working longer rather than shorter shifts
Residents made more serious errors while working a schedule that eliminated extended shifts, although the results varied by study site and may have been affected by higher workloads on the shorter shifts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/01/3.htm
1 Jul 2020
How to handle biased patients
Hospitalists have developed strategies for these problematic encounters.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/how-to-handle-biased-patients.htm
15 Jun 2020
Empowering patients to prevent falls
A color-coded poster highlighted the importance of fall precautions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/success-story-empowering-patients-to-prevent-falls.htm
15 Jun 2020
Hospitalists, primary care clinicians favor EMR communication at discharge over other methods
In a survey of clinicians at a safety-net hospital system, direct messages sent via a shared electronic medical record (EMR) were preferred to phone, email, fax, and text messaging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/5.htm
15 Apr 2020
Making early discharge a priority for residents
A new form of rounds got more patients out of the hospital by 11 a.m.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/04/success-story-making-early-discharge-a-priority-for-residents.htm
15 Apr 2020
Bringing the hospital home
Pilot projects are providing inpatient-level care in patients' homes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/bringing-the-hospital-home.htm
15 Mar 2020