A panel of healthcare leaders met recently to discuss a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) report citing that there has been little progress at reducing hospital readmissions for Medicare ...

Mistakes happen. Many times when mistakes happen in hospitals, the hospital's system and process design has at least in part failed a frontline provider. How much of a human error is truly the fault o...

While there are many mandates brought about by healthcare reform, healthcare organizations are beginning to understand how much they truly need to partner with their patients in care....

Certain information should be available when medication errors are being prescribed. Age is one of the elements. Name at least four more elements that should be available. Click here to view the a...

Certain information should be available when medication errors are being prescribed. Age is one of the elements. Name at least four more elements that should be available. Click here to view the ans...

Q: At our facility, we were found noncompliant with MM.04.01.01 EP 13, requiring a hospital to implement medication order policies. What actions should we take to correct this?...

these patients find themselves in the hospital for a variety of reasons, the process of medication reconciliation continues to be a problem without a perfect solution. Baystate Health, a healthcare ...

True or false: Adverse drug reactions, as well as medication errors, pose a serious safety risk to patients. Hospitals must have a process in place to monitor and provide care to the patient, as wel...

In November 2000, the Needlestick Safety and ­Prevention Act (NSPA) was passed by the federal government. The act, which was adopted by OSHA under its Bloodborne Pathogens standard several months ...

Q: What process should I have in place for clarifying incomplete medication orders? ...