Category: Quality

Hospitals often fail to meet patients’ behavioral health needs, ECRI says

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CHS Pennsylvania hospital addresses 19 health violations found in surprise visit

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Physicians who have patient contact should have to get flu shot, most physicians say

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CDC failed to report 2 polio-like illness deaths, parents say

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HHS declares California wildfires a public health emergency

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Managing alarm systems for quality and safety in the hospital setting.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Bach TA, Berglund L, Turk E. BMJ Open Qual. 2018;7:e000202.

Anticoagulant medication errors in hospitals and primary care: a cross-sectional study.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Dreijer AR, Diepstraten J, Bukkems VE, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2018 Aug 25; [Epub ahead of print].

An analysis of adverse events in the rehabilitation department: using the Veterans Affairs root cause analysis system.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Hagley GW, Mills PD, Shiner B, Hemphill RR. Phys Ther. 2018;98:223-230.

Blame: what does it look like?

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Duthie EA. Nurs Manage. 2018;49:18-21.

Analysis of medication therapy discontinuation orders in new electronic prescriptions and opportunities for implementing CancelRx.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Yang Y, Ward-Charlerie S, Kashyap N, DeMayo R, Agresta T, Green J. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018;25:1516-1523.