Hospitals are issued a call to arms on patient safety

Drug Topics;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......concern for patient safety. Hospitals generally take...will assist hospitals in raising awareness of patient safety at the community...will help these hospitals become leaders...barriers to patient safety and replacing...

Patient Safety Measures Work at Children's Hospitals, Study Finds, But...

AScribe Medicine News Service;  January 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......children's hospitals have joined...to improve patient safety and avoid...national patient safety indicators...children's hospitals specifically...rates of patient safety issues in children's hospitals are low...

Hospital adoption of information technologies and improved patient safety:...

Journal of Healthcare Management;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......IT adoption and patient safety performance across hospitals in Florida. Primary...related to more patient safety outcome measures. Hospitals with the most...IT adoption and patient safety performance among hospitals in Florida. We...

Measurable Patient Safety Improvement Seen at a Few Hospitals Across the...

U.S. Newswire;  April 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ......than expected.) Peer hospitals' (non- PIL winners) patient safety index ranking worsened...showing improvement in patient safety at PIL hospitals vs. peer hospitals...improvement on measures of patient safety. PIL hospitals were also able to...

Hospital patient safety: characteristics of best-performing hospitals.

Journal of Healthcare Management;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hospitals have made slow...of Medicine's patient safety goals, and implementation...not only urged hospitals and healthcare...professionals to improve patient safety practices, but...characteristics of those hospitals that are (1) likely...more extensive ...

Improving patient safety in hospitals: contributions of high-reliability...

Health Services Research;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Is Human introduced many patient safety advocates to the idea of developing hospitals into high-reliability organizations...frames for understanding patient safety (Weick 2004). (1) HRT and...insights into the pursuit of patient safety. Previous studies...affecting ...

Evidence-Based Tips From AHRQ Help Hospitals Promote Patient Safety

U.S. Newswire;  November 16, 2006 ;     460 words ......a culture of patient safety, limiting shifts...compiled to help hospitals provide the highest...tipsheet, 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals, was unveiled...Organizations' annual patient safety conference in...care provided in hospitals every day is...ways to ...

Patient Safety in Hospitals Shows Five Consecutive Years of Improvement,...

PR Newswire;  March 17, 2008 ;     687 words ......performance levels in patient safety were achieved by the 100 hospitals in the study...these leading hospitals on the eight patient safety measures, they...Thomson Healthcare. Hospitals setting new levels of patient safety are those with...

Progress slow in improving hospitals' patient safety systems, study says.

Legislative Network for Nurses;  December 19, 2005 ;     285 words ......improvement in patient safety systems at hospitals, progress...regression in patient safety systems was...percent of hospitals reported full...greatest level of patient safety systems. Other...percentage of hospitals with various...

AHRQ Offers Evidence-Based Tips to Help Hospitals Promote Patient Safety

AANA Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     436 words ......compiled to help hospitals provide the highest...tipsheet, "10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals," was unveiled...Organizations' annual patient safety conference in...care provided in hospitals every day is more...Clancy. "While many hospitals have made ...

Making hospitals safer for Hoosiers: State's efforts include...

News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN);  May 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......damages, and hospitals failing to...have hurt patient safety and worsened...director of the Patient Safety Center. Morr...167 member hospitals in the association...effective the Patient Safety Center will be unless hospitals are completely...

Children in hospitals often experience adverse patient safety events, such...

Legislative Network for Nurses;  June 28, 2004 ;     171 words ...* Children in hospitals often experience adverse patient safety events, such as...identified 51,615 patient safety events involving children in hospitals during 2000. Children...report, Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals: A National Picture...

Hospitals agree to sign off on patient-safety strategies.

Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  February 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......involving all three hospitals in Seminole County...required to have patient-safety officers, nobody...Seminole County Patient Safety Council, a group...County's three hospitals: Florida Hospital...Solutions to patient safety are not in medicine...Although all three ...

Concern Over Error Rate, Patient Safety In VA Hospitals Prompts Hearing.

PR Newswire;  July 20, 2000 ;     408 words ......Administration help improve patient safety for veterans? That is one...Thursday, July 27 to examine patient safety in VA hospitals. Everett believes the VA...slow to move in addressing patient safety issues and wants to encourage...sound paradoxical, but hospitals can ...

Patient-safety survey participation grows; But few hospitals meet Leapfrog...

Business Insurance;  October 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON-A leading patient safety group is pleased that more hospitals are participating...ways to improve patient safety in rural hospitals,'' Ms. DeMars...just 8.1% of hospitals reported data for the patient-safety study. This lackluster...