True or false: It is important to educate caregivers on the risks of coagulation therapy, potential drug or food interactions, and the importance of proper monitoring and follow up. ...

True or False: It is not necessary for community hospitals to have processes in place for accepting referrals if they do not want to. ...

The Joint Commission has altered the term “disruptive behavior” in the accreditor’s standards in response to feedback from the healthcare field indicating that the term is both amb...

Ten years ago at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, two patient safety culture assessment survey tools were used-one to assess staff members' perception of where the organization stood with resp...

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The following is an excerpt from Occurrence Reporting: Building a Robust Problem Identification and ­Resolution Process, by Kenneth R. Rohde, senior consultant for The ­Greeley Company, a divi...

Are hard economic times and a lack of key drugs leading to more drugs being sold through the unauthorized “parallel” market known as the gray market?...

The Joint Commission has launched the much-discussed “Leading Practice Library,” in which accredited hospitals and other organizations can look at solutions crafted by other accredited org...

Inside: Better teams, better checklists, better care Critical to your QI efforts: Engaging busy bedside nurses New year, new patient safety resolutions Can you give us a review of cur...

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