Over the past few years, numerous hospitals and health care facilities have reduced the amount of nursing staff in a bid to cut costs in as many areas as possible. Although the care facility in question may be saving money by doing this, it undoubtedly has a negative impact on one of the most important […]
Patients who are undergoing surgical procedures that require the use of anesthesia will expect the most qualified person possible to oversee the process. However, a new bill that has been proposed for hospital patients in California could very well put patient safety and the quality of care that they receive while in hospital, at serious […]
When a family member is hospitalized, most people naturally assume that he or she will be safe until they are discharged. However, according to information stated by Magdalena Kalata, who is President of the European Health Parliament, as many as 37,000 hospital patients die as a result of various hospital and healthcare-related infections each year […]
Thanks to the amount of adverse incidents that take place in hospitals and other healthcare facilities these days, a topic that is on the forefront of many peoples minds is that of patient safety. Although there are numerous technology-based safeguards that have been put in place, an important question has arisen of whether that is […]
Each day, thousands of people are hospitalized around the country for various reasons ranging from minor ailments to major surgeries that they need to have performed. However, there have been many cases where patients have suffered unnecessary injuries or even death while under the care of medical professionals in hospitals or other care centers. As […]
In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education started recommending duty hour requirements of 24 hours for residents, which were amended in 2011 to 16-hour shifts for junior trainees and 24 hours for senior trainees. This followed preliminary evidence which showed that restricting shift times could improve patient safety levels as well as resident […]
In a bid to prepare medical doctors and other personnel for working with the public as quickly as possible, it has been suggested that their medical training periods be reduced in order to facilitate this. However, a number of leading doctors groups and organizations have voiced their concerns in this regard, stating that should these […]
Vice President Joe Biden recently attended a conference in Irvine, California, where he made an important statement regarding the fact that hospitals need to place more focus on reducing preventable errors and government should be creating more economic incentives that would help improve patient safety. Time to Link Quality with Safety Biden went […]
One year ago, Professor Don Berwick produced a review of patient safety in England called A Promise to Learn A Commitment to Act. The purpose of the review was to analyze the current level of patient safety and to provide guidelines that would help reduce the level of accidents in patient care throughout the United […]
