Healthcare Risk Management articles from December 2008

Healthcare Risk Management archives from December 2008

Sex offenders pose liability risk when admitted for health care.
December 1, 2008... Sex offenders pose liability risk when admitted for health care Provider may be responsible if offender abuses others in facility Health care facilities see a wide array of different types of people admitted for care, and not all of...

States acting on risk from sex offenders.
December 1, 2008... States acting on risk from sex offenders As the evidence mounts that patients and long-term care residents can be threatened by the presence of sex offenders in their facilities, some communities are responding with efforts to protect the...

Assess each patient to determine risk.
December 1, 2008... Assess each patient to determine risk Never assume that all sex offenders are the same, cautions Michael Fogel, PsyD, a forensic psychologist at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Doing so will lead you to either overreact to...

Normalization of deviance a constant risk.
December 1, 2008... Normalization of deviance a constant risk It is human nature to take shortcuts or ignore the burdensome steps sometimes involved in doing a task the right way, and when there is no negative consequence, the deviation can be reinforced. ...

Sterile break seen as normal deviance.
December 1, 2008... Sterile break seen as normal deviance Authority figures in health care have the potential to influence whether deviation is normalized, notes John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University...

Coded wristbands prompt confidentiality concerns.
December 1, 2008... Coded wristbands prompt confidentiality concerns More hospitals are adopting the use of color-coded wristbands for patients in an effort to improve safety by alerting anyone nearby that the person is a fall risk, for instance, or to...

AHA calls for standard wristband color scheme.(The American Hospital Association )
December 1, 2008... AHA calls for standard wristband color scheme The American Hospital Association (AHA) in Washington, DC, is urging the health care community to adopt a standardized color scheme for patient wristbands in order to avoid dangerous confusion...

FTC delays Red Flags Rule to May 2009.
December 1, 2008... FTC delays Red Flags Rule to May 2009 Responding to concerns that some health care providers would not have enough time to comply, the Federal Trade Commission is moving the deadline for its so-called Red Flags Rule to May 1, 2009, six...

First online drug alerts go to U.S. doctors.
December 1, 2008... First online drug alerts go to U.S. doctors The newly launched Health Care Notification Network (HCNN) has delivered the first online drug alerts to U.S. physicians. The alert focused on a widely manufactured and commonly used class of...

Legal Review & Commentary: Patient suicide leads to $9 million Texas verdict.
December 1, 2008... Legal Review & Commentary Patient suicide leads to $9 million Texas verdict By Jon T. Gatto, Esq. Blake J. Delaney, Esq. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Tampa, FL News: A man was admitted to the hospital complaining of...

Legal Review & Commentary: $4.875M settlement in eye infection case.
December 1, 2008... Legal Review & Commentary $4.875M settlement in eye infection case News: A middle-aged man was suffering from a fever, facial swelling and redness, and nasal congestion. After consulting with his regular family doctor and two other...

CE Objectives/Questions.
December 1, 2008... CE Objectives After reading this issue of Healthcare Risk Management, the CE participant should be able to: • Describe legal, clinical, financial, and managerial issues pertinent to risk management in health care. •...