hospital safety News

New ICD-10 Coding System May Cloud Hospital Safety Audits

Changes in how medical diagnoses are coded under the latest international disease classification system – better known as the ICD-10 codes – may complicate the assessment of hospital safety, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Their report …

Federal Report Says Patient Safety at Hospitals Improving

The government says hospitals are becoming safer for patients due to a quality improvement partnership between industry and federal agencies. A report out Wednesday from Health and Human Services finds that adverse events such as medication mistakes, falls and infections …

New Jersey Hospitals Show Improved Patient Safety: Study

A new study finds New Jersey hospitals are doing a better job of preventing infections, falls and readmissions. The New Jersey Hospital Association released data last week culled from reports to various government agencies from 62 hospitals that are taking …

Tapping Engineers, Families for Hospital Safety

Head of the hospital bed raised? Check. Patient’s teeth brushed? Check. Those simple but often overlooked steps can help protect some of the most critically ill patients – those on ventilators – from developing deadly pneumonia. And if they knew …