Removing blame increases error reporting
Filed under: Communication, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
New research indicates that certain ways of tracking medical error reports are more successful at encouraging people to make reports. Read more
Are 90% of medical errors unreported?
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
New research indicates medical errors may happen 10 times as often as was once believed. Read more
‘If I don’t get a break, someone could die’
Filed under: Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
A nurses’ group just filed lawsuits against four hospitals, claiming their practices of cutting nurses’ breaks short are endangering nurses and patients. Read more
Which docs gets sued most often — and what’s the real cost?
Filed under: Fraud & Waste, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Insurance, Patient/Client Communication, Practice Management, Special Report
A new study from the American Medical Association looked into which doctors — by gender, age, specialty, etc. — are most likely to get sued or have other liability claims against them. Read more
Doc claims outdated equipment led to wrongly diagnosing a miscarriage
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What’s the worst that could happen from using old equipment? Well, for starters, it might mean telling someone she miscarried when she hadn’t. Read more
Why are hospitals making more errors now?
Filed under: Ethics, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Hospital Management, Patient/Client Communication, Practice Management, Special Report
Despite hospitals’ best efforts, the data indicates that some of the most serious adverse events patients can face are becoming more common, not less. Read more
Improving safety: Standardized briefings are a quick, cost-effective way
Filed under: Communication, Health care/Treatment trends, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
A three-minute technique to improve communication in the OR could greatly improve overall patient safety. Read more
‘I’m sorry’: Two words that can avoid a lawsuit
Filed under: Communication, Ethics, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Hospital Management, Patient/Client Communication, Special Report
When an inevitable medical error takes place, few health care providers want to admit to a patient — or the surviving family — that they screwed up. But that just might be the smartest thing they can do. Read more