Hospital trustees shift their focus to medical safety
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Hospitals increasingly are expecting volunteer trustees to go beyond the role of community boosters and tackle an imposing medical issue: preventing errors that lead to patient injuries and deaths.
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Hospitals are being told to standardise patients' wristbands to cut out errors in care.
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MRSA compensation claims may become more prevalent as lawyers turn to workplace safety laws to pursue hospitals.
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The BBC has learnt of serious incidents at a major Welsh hospital, with worries about patient safety.
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Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday launched an initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Patient safety would improve if health workers who report hospital errors were protected from legal action, says a new report.
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Mark Hopkins, CIO of academic and community hospitals at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says administrative management positions help expose him to the business side of health care.
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The health insurer said it planned to reorganize into two divisions to meet the needs of the growing elderly population.
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail
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Private rooms would be standard in new U.S. hospitals under recommendations from an influential architects' group that says building design can help curb infectious diseases and medical errors.
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CHICAGO A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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A simple five-item checklist can prevent hospital infections.
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Hospitals should be fined if they harm patients, the government's chief medical officer has proposed.
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The government announces proposals to improve patient safety as a study finds current safeguards are failing.
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LEBANON, N.H. -- It took Laurie Tostenson years of mopping floors, washing sheets and "screaming twice as loud" as the men around her before she managed to change her janitors' scrubs for a blazer befitting a supervisor at New Hampshire's largest hospital.
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The new policy raises the possibility of changes in medical practice as doctors hew more closely to clinical guidelines.