Using Automated Surveillance to Improve Diagnosis Every day, healthcare becomes more complex, and with that complexity comes a growing need to focus on reducing diagnostic errors. A recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare (Balogh, Miller, & Ball, 2015), estimates that 5% of adults seeking outpatient care experience a diagnostic error, while one in 10 patient deaths and up to 17% of adverse events are directly tied to such errors. Read More | CDC: 30% of Outpatient Antibiotics Are Prescribed Inappropriately A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that approximately 30% of antibiotic prescriptions written in the outpatient setting were inappropriate. Read More | 80% of ER Providers Hesitant to Ask Patients About Gender Sexual Orientation For emergency medicine clinicians who learned to defer to patients’ privacy on sexual orientation and gender identification, asking questions is a major culture change.
As HHS moves toward advancing healthcare equality, patients are generally comfortable with emergency department physicians and nurses asking about sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI). But 80% of ED providers surveyed said they are hesitant to ask for fear of offending patients. Read More0 | Nursing Informatics: What Clinical Decision Support Can Offer Advanced clinical decision support (CDS) systems are playing an increasingly important role in promoting quality and safety in patient care, especially in diagnostic assistance. While arriving at a correct diagnosis will always be a mixture of art and science, with physicians ultimately responsible for all clinical decisions, CDS systems support the science by adding key data points of which the clinician may otherwise be unaware. Read More | Survey: The Importance of Patient Identification Within a Facility We are pleased to invite you to participate in our brief study on the Importance of Patient Identification. Please take a few minute to complete the survey by clicking on the below link. All answers will be kept confidential. Read More |
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