HCPro.com: Quality Improvement Monitor

June 27, 2008 (Volume 6, Issue 25)

Legislation would create RI patient safety organization
A bill sent to Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri this week would create a state patient safety organization to encourage better reporting of medical errors.

WHO unveils safety checklist for surgery
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week unveiled a surgery safety checklist to reduce the number of mistakes that disable and kill millions of people each year, according to Reuters.

Overworked staff, crowding hamper MRSA reduction
Overworked doctors and nurses are less likely to wash their hands, hampering hospital efforts to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals, Australian researchers reported this week, according to HealthDay News.

How to comply with critical test result reporting requirements
Keep your lists of critical tests and critical results and values short and minimize the number of handoffs between the testing area and the licensed practitioner if you want to pass muster during survey time, says Gayla Jackson, RN, BSN, a nurse manager at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA, and author of Critical Test Results Troubleshooter: Practical Strategies and Tools for JCAHO Compliance.

Other recently-published articles from Quality Improvement Monitor:

New compendium provides infection prevention guidelines

Timeouts need to include the entire surgical team

HRET to study how CMS’ new rule will affect safety net hospitals

AHRQ awards grant to reduce central line infections

Newspapers praise CMS’ new no-pay policy

Antibiotic monitoring improves quality, reduces cost

CMS approves another hospital accrediting organization

Lawmaker introduces value-based purchasing proposal

Will CMS’ no-pay rule significantly hurt hospitals’ bottom lines?

Higher levels of insulin often needed for glucose control

Providence doctor operates on wrong knee

Can doctors’ clothes spread infections?

Survey finds senior leadership lacking on infection prevention

Joint Commission issues Sentinel Event Alert on anticoagulants

CMS adds conditions to no-pay list

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