Quality & Patient Safety
AONE member Sue Hassmiller, senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, spoke at the official U.S. launch of a global campaign spearheaded by the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organization.
Hospira is voluntarily recalling three lots of the injectable opioid medication Hydromorphone HCl because the glass vials may be broken or cracked.
Member Advisory: Patient Safety Awareness Week March 11-17: Opportunity to Share Your Hospital Story
Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) will be March 11-17. Once again, this celebration is sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which began working together with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) last year.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted health care professionals and patients not to use drug products produced by Cantrell Drug Co., including opioid products and other drugs intended for sterile injection, citing serious deficiencies in the company’s compounding operations.
Augusta Health dramatically improved patient outcomes and reduced readmissions with its own automated sepsis surveillance system. When a patient’s condition triggers an alert, a secure text is sent to the ED charge nurse for immediate assessment. Click here to learn more.
The undersigned groups respectfully request that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
adjust aggregate production quotas (APQ) for certain opioids in order to mitigate ongoing drug
shortages.
Does receiving a penalty under Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program really mean a hospital is a poor performer? An online article published February 16 in the Journal for Healthcare Quality by the AHA and KNG Health Consulting shows that getting a HAC penalty resembles a game of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week published on the Hospice Compare website initial results from its patient experience of care survey.
Phillips Electronics North America Corp. has recalled 71 HeartStart MRx defibrillators produced in September and October 2016 due to a defect that may cause the device to fail.
This TrendWatch from September 2011 examines recent research on hospital readmissions, including the linkages between readmissions and quality of care, and the various circumstances that may drive readmissions.