ECRI Identifies Ongoing HIT-Related Patient Safety Concerns, CPS Continues to See the same

June 16, 2014 | By: Calevir

The ECRI Institute has identified in its new Top 10 Patient Safety Issues continued HIT-related events, delving deeper into HIT Data Integrity Failures, Retained Devices and Fragments and Inadequate Reprocessing of Endoscopes and Surgical Instruments. Data entry errors, missing data, delayed data entry, copying and pasting and patient/data association errors are also very common HIT-related reports to the Center for Patient Safety. Learn more.

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PSO Case Law: Ungurian v. Beyzman, et al., 2020 PA Super 105:

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Joint Commission New Sentinel Event Alert 61: Managing the Risks of Direct Oral Anticoagulants:

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CPS Safety Watch/Alert – Culture Can Improve the Control of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms:

Issue: A number of events reported co CPS’ Patient Safety Organization (PSO) demonstrate poor handoff communication about the patients’ infectious disease status Examples include: Patient with

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