Medical errors: Where are we now?

Article Abstract:

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) indicated some seven years ago from 2006 that as many as 98,000 people may die in any given year from preventable medical errors. The US President George W. Bush signed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA), which helped to create a national patient safety database for healthcare providers to report medical errors to patient safety organizations (PSOs), and already 23 states in the US have established medical error reporting systems.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Management, Company business management, Medical errors

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Policy spotlight: Patient care ergonomics

Article Abstract:

A high rise in the neck, shoulder and back injuries had led to an increase in the ergonomic hazards in the healthcare work setting. Various administrative policies are being developed to promote the use of safe patient handling techniques with enough knowledge to reduce workers' compensation costs and to improve the recruitment of patient care workers.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Health aspects, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Work-related injuries, Work related injuries, Ergonomics, Ergonomic aid

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Infection control: It's in your hands

Article Abstract:

The call by the health department to initiate use of hand held devices for documenting patient data, the benefits of quick access and the importance of nurse informatics are detailed.

United Kingdom, Prevention, Practice, Nosocomial infections, Cross infection, Hand washing, Handwashing, Communicable disease nursing

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