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Get hospital lawyer to help set parameters of QAPI program disclosures

November 20, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Determining how your facility addresses requests for information about how it complies with CMS’ Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Conditions of Participation (CoP) while protectin...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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What are hospitals required to report?

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Hospitals must report adverse actions taken against the privileges of a physician or dentist to the National Practitioner Data Bank. They may choose to report actions against the privileges of other h...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: The importance of patient identification

December 13, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

When a doctor or nurse gets a patient’s name wrong, it’s not just a faux pas—it can carry actual risk. ...

Medical Environment Update

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

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New testing and the future of antibiotic stewardship

December 13, 2025

Infection Control, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Antibiotic-resistance continues to be a challenge for the healthcare industry, as medical and public health professionals look for ways to combat it even as more multiple-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Safety lessons healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 2

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Airlines and aviation have often been held up as standards for safety, but can what they do apply to hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare organizations? This is Part 2 of our interview wi...

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The medical library: A hospital’s most underappreciated asset

December 13, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

The impact of medical librarians is well documented. In one experiment, a group of primary care providers had the opportunity to send clinical questions to a rapid-response medical librarian. They rec...

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Use available databases to track drug shortages in wake of disasters and international events

September 12, 2023

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors

With the scarcity of many drugs reaching an all-time high, 99% of hospital pharmacists surveyed recently said they were seeing shortages, and a third of those said the shortages were having a critical...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

There are key differences between healthcare and aviation, says Jeffrey Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and an aviation safety expert. Bu...

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CDC launches Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to help sepsis patients

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

On August 24, the CDC launched the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, with seven core elements aimed at strengthening survival and recovery rates for all sepsis patients. Hospitalized patients wit...

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Get hospital lawyer to help set parameters of QAPI program disclosures

What are hospitals required to report?

Q&A: The importance of patient identification

Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

New testing and the future of antibiotic stewardship

Safety lessons healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 2

The medical library: A hospital’s most underappreciated asset

Use available databases to track drug shortages in wake of disasters and international events

Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

CDC launches Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to help sepsis patients

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