Accreditation Insider July 3, 2018 Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are a well-known issue related to urinary catheters. However, a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds the devices can cause more issues than previously thought. In fact, UTIs are five times less common than non-infectious prob ...Read More →
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LHA Trust Funds Launches New Workplace Security Initiative
June 13, 2018 Concerned with workplace security? The LHA Trust Funds has engaged a team of security and crime prevention experts to provide security evaluations, demonstrate active ...Read More →
A Hospital’s Human Touch: Why Taking Care in Discharging a Patient Matters
By Judith Graham Kaiser Health News July 12, 2018 The kidney doctor sat next to Judy Garrett’s father, looking into his face, her hand on his arm. There are things I can do for you ...Read More →
Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Doctors Sexually Harassed By Patients
By Joanne Finnegan FierceHealthcare July 12, 2018 Many doctors have to deal with a source of sexual harassment beyond co-workers—their patients, according to a new survey. More tha ...Read More →
Why the 2018 FGI Guidelines Account for ‘Patients of Size’ and How Your Facility Can, Too
By Megan Headley Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare July 18, 2018 The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery notes that bariatric surgeries have steadily increas ...Read More →
To Bring Health Information Privacy Into The 21st Century, Look Beyond HIPAA
By Lucia C. Savage Health Affairs Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a “Viewpoint” by I. Glenn Cohen and Michelle M. Mello asking, among other thin ...Read More →
Six Steps for Evaluating Broken Processes
By William T. Choctaw, MD, JD, CSSBB Physician Advisor The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare The magnitude of nosocomial errors to patients has had a major effect ...Read More →
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