Hospital Peer Review articles from February 2002

Hospital Peer Review archives from February 2002

Quality professionals must take lead to eliminate wrong-site surgery: joint commission continues to push issue in latest alert.
February 1, 2002... Quality professionals must take the lead the issue of on "wrong-site" surgery, an egregious mistake in which the surgical team operates on the wrong part of the body or the wrong patient, or performs the wrong procedure. That's the message from...

Pain management is high priority for surveyors: common set of measures developed by 3 groups.
February 1, 2002... As three of the nation's leading health care organizations develop a common set of evidence-based measures for evaluating the appropriateness and effectiveness of pain management, the first year under the Joint Commission on Accreditation of...

Surgeon to pay legal fees after suing hospital: case should encourage hospitals to fight back.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... For the first time in New York, a court has ordered a physician to reimburse the legal fees and costs of a hospital and several physicians whom he sued after they recommended suspending his medical privileges following a peer-review process...

Accreditation program for critical access hospitals: first surveys were conducted at end of 2001.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has launched a new accreditation program for critical access hospitals, with the first surveys conducted at the end of 2001. The Joint Commission is seeking deemed status...

Health care closes in on HIPAA compliance.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act )(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The health care industry appears to have taken the necessary steps to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule, according to a survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)....

Relive Saint Vincents' experience in audio replay.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... On Sept. 11, Saint Vincents hospital in Manhattan, a Level 1 trauma center located two miles from the World Trade Center (WTC), found itself at the center of an unthinkable tragedy. A Code Three was called after two hijacked airliners slammed...

Patient safety: just old wine in a new bottle? Leaders must not delegate their responsibility. (The Quality-Co$t Connection).
February 1, 2002... Is patient safety improvement just a new version of what quality and risk managers have been doing for years? Patient safety does involve a systematic approach to improving the quality of processes and enhancing the prospect of better...

CE questions.(continuing education)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Please save your monthly issues with the CE questions in order to take the two semester tests in the June and December issues. A Scantron sheet will be inserted in those issues, but the questions will not be repeated. 5. To reduce the...

CE objectives.(continuing education)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... To earn continuing education (CE) credit for subscribing to Hospital Peer Review, CE participants should be able to meet the following objectives after reading each issue: * Identify a particular clinical, legal, or educational issue...

Ease of access to deadly chemicals may be the greatest threat to hospital readiness: how close is your hospital to a railroad track?
February 1, 2002... Though biological agents have dominated recent terrorism discussions, ease of access to deadly chemicals may make them a greater threat to hospital readiness, experts emphasized recently at the University of Georgia in Athens. "Eighty new...