Featured Story | | DNV Resumes All Annual Surveys Onsite and Unannounced | | Noting that the AO said in January that it was likely to continue the remote annual surveys through at least April, DNV announced through an advisory March 23 that “COVID-19 positivity rates, hospitalizations, and community transmission have dropped significantly, making it much safer to return to onsite survey activities.” |
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News & Analysis | | Former Nurse's Criminal Conviction Will Have a 'Chilling Effect' on Healthcare | | Vaught was convicted Friday of a 2017 fatal drug error after a three-day trial that continues to capture the attention of nurses across the country, many of whom worry that the case could set a precedent of criminalizing medical errors. Vaught, scheduled to be sentenced May 13, faces three to six years in prison for neglect and one to two years for negligent homicide. |
| Physicians Eager to Help Address Patients’ Social Drivers of Health | | The survey was conducted by The Physician Foundation from Feb. 2 to Feb. 11. Data was collected from more than 1,500 physicians. One-third of the physicians who responded to the survey practice primary care, which was defined as family medicine, general practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics. The remaining survey respondents practice in one of two dozen specialties. |
PSQH: The Podcast PSQH: The Podcast Episode 49 – How Female Physicians Can Prevent Burnout | | On episode 49 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Tammie Chang, author of the new book Boundaries for Women Physicians: Love Your Life and Career in Medicine, talks about how female physicians can prevent burnout, stress, and exhaustion. Part of PSQH’s Patient Safety Awareness Week activities, this episode is presented in partnership with GOJO – the makers of Purell, Nuance, PDC, and the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. |
| Sponsored content Resistance Isn’t the Enemy; It’s a Valuable Resource! | | Hand hygiene is an evidence-based best practice that spans across all hierarchies and disciplines, and every healthcare facility is faced with the challenging task of continually rolling out improvement efforts. Multimodal strategies are recommended to bring about changes in hand hygiene performance. This content is presented in partnership with GOJO, the makers of Purell. |
| Improve patient safety in the emergency department through AI | | A 2020 study by Newman-Toker, et al. identified that 15 diseases account for about half of all serious misdiagnosis-related harms. The research focused on the “Big Three” categories of vascular events, infections, and cancers and found that 10% of patients with a “Big Three” disease are misdiagnosed. This content is presented in partnership with Nuance. |
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