Search results for "Patient Safety"
Coadministration of antidepressants, certain opioids linked to adverse events in nursing home patients
Older nursing home patients who received both CYP2D6-metabolized opioids and CYP2D6-inhibiting antidepressants were at higher risk for worsening pain, pain-related hospitalization, pain-related ED visits, and opioid use disorder in a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/24/coadministration-of-antidepressants-certain-opioids-linked-to-adverse-events-in-nursing-home-patients.htm
24 Jul 2024
Regionalized care teams may not lead to improvements in patient safety, study finds
Researchers found no significant difference in preventable adverse events but did find improvement in nurses' and interns' communication about patients' expected discharge dates and daily care plans.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/02/4.htm
2 Mar 2016
'Fall-Free Fridays'
Weekly rounds with a catchy name helped one hospital reduce patient falls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/03/fall-free-fridays.htm
3 Jul 2024
Duty hours may have no effect on patient safety, resident well-being, care continuity
A randomized trial did not find a patient safety benefit from shorter duty schedules, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/02/25/3.htm
25 Feb 2015
July 24, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/24/
Residents report that ‘warm handoffs' enhance patient safety
One residency program implemented a protocol in which the incoming and outgoing residents met at the end of a ward rotation to sign out and jointly round on sicker patients using a bedside-rounding checklist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/23/2.htm
23 Aug 2017
March 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/
Patient safety, resident sleep do not appear to differ with flexible vs. standard duty hours
Sixty-three U.S. internal medicine residency programs were randomly assigned to follow standard duty-hour policies mandating 16-hour shifts and an 80-hour workweek, or flexible policies, with an 80-hour workweek but no limits on shift length or mandatory time off between shifts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/13/1.htm
13 Mar 2019
December 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/12/
Attending physician workload may affect teaching effectiveness, patient safety
Academic rank and time spent with learners were positively associated with teaching evaluations, and higher midnight census and daily discharges were negatively associated, a single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/01/13/3.htm
13 Jan 2016