tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 43

INDUSTRY NOTES ~ Reducing Medical Errors In Hospitals -- Made Easy

Ensuring patient safety and decreasing errors are no doubt top priorities for U.S. hospitals. But finding simple solutions to these often complex problems and implementing new processes in institutions are the real challenges.HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently released "practical tips for promoting a culture of patient safety, limiting shifts for medical residents and interns, and adopting interventions to reduce cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia and catheter-related urinary tract infections." And AHRQ attempts to do all of this in a simple tipsheet, called "10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals," which the agency released...

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