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What is important to know about being a good witness?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Linda E. Hines Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Documenting healthcare's journey through the patient safety landscapeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Pamela L. Popp Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Applying fighter pilot methodology to healthcareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Kathy Rapala Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Plaintiff in EMTALA claim need not be the injured patientEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: John C. West Tags: Case Law Update Source Type: journals

Reuse of single-use devices: Protecting your reprocessing programEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
High-profile hepatitis C outbreaks in 2008 spurred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's attention toward legislative and regulatory action in several states around the practice of reuse of single-use devices. Promulgated in the interest of public safety, some of these new regulations and laws can have a potential impact on hospitals' ability to access third-party reprocessing duly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lory Olsson Tags: Patient Safety Source Type: journals

Troublesome times demand more effective practicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The intensifying financial pressures bearing down on the American government and taxpayers due to egregious corporate mismanagement will focus increasing and unprecedented scrutiny on the business world. The risk management community believes a paradigm shift is at hand. Organizations of every kind will feel pressure to do more than they have in the past to understand the risks they face, expose and challenge every assumption they make, and take steps to quantify and appropriately mitigate the exposures they identify. This will not be an easy transition. Just as the healthcare community has struggled over the past 25 years...
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Mary Botkin, Ken Felton Tags: Enterprise Risk Management Source Type: journals

Communication and documentation considerations for electronic health recordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Electronic health records (EHRs) are here to stay, and their use is expected to grow significantly in the future. It is incumbent on risk managers to ensure their use does not inhibit good provider-to-patient communication. Providing education and strategies on how to make the patient encounter meaningful while the provider uses an EHR may increase patient satisfaction and may contribute to a favorable professional liability loss experience. Risk managers also need to have an understanding of the capabilities of each specific EHR system in the facility, the implications of the ability to cut-and-paste information from one ...
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ann D. Gaffey Tags: Enterprise Risk Management Source Type: journals

Leaving against medical advice: Facing the issue in the emergency departmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article attempts to mitigate these risks by reviewing what we know about AMA encounters from the ED and providing documentation guidelines for the encounter. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - October 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Edward P. Monico, Ian Schwartz Tags: Claims & amp; Litigation Source Type: journals

Basic help for preparing legal presentationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Sharon Groves Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Why some complex systems fail as others succeedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Robert Stanyon Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Case law update: Corporate negligence, peer review information, medical malpractice, good samaritan statute, emergency medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: John C. West Tags: Legal & amp; Regulatory Source Type: journals

The risk management professional and medication safetyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ASHRM is committed to the future development of the healthcare risk management profession. A key contribution to this commitment is the creation of a student version of ASHRM's best-selling Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Organizations. The Student Edition was released this spring. It is now being made available to universities and colleges to incorporate into their degree programs. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Hedy Cohen, Nancy Tuohy, Roberta Carroll (ed.) Tags: Patient Safety Source Type: journals

"Ticket to ride": How useful is this new handoff tool?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article gives guidance on the development of a ticket-to-ride form. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: John C. West Tags: Patient Safety Source Type: journals

Vaginal birth after cesarean checklist: An evidence-based approach to improving care during VBAC trialsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article recommends a checklist that can be completed for each patient when she is admitted for a trial of labor after a previous cesarean delivery (VBAC). The elements of the checklist will help confirm the preparedness of the organization, compliance with national standards, and the consent of the patient for the VBAC trial. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Larry Veltman Tags: Patient Safety Source Type: journals

Strategies to prepare for electronic discovery in healthcareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article provides healthcare risk managers with the basic knowledge necessary to prepare for electronic discovery. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - August 23, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Joseph L. Smetana Jr. Tags: Enterprise Risk Management Source Type: journals

Working together, staying focused on our goalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When I was elected president of ASHRM for 2009, I accepted the honor as an opportunity to help ASHRM reach new heights. My goal is to support the objectives and goals consistent with the mission, values, and strategic direction of this organization and to do that with integrity through service, teamwork, and innovation. This is a challenging year for all of us individually, which by extension makes it a challenge for ASHRM. Staying focused on my goal will be difficult, but my intention is to do just that. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - July 31, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Georgene Saliba Tags: President's Message Source Type: journals

Meeting your needs, now and in the futureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
President Obama has repeatedly said that healthcare reform is not a luxury that can be postponed but a necessity that cannot wait. Healthcare change is all around us, and ASHRM is continually working to assist its members with opportunities to demonstrate their value and leadership within their respective organizations. (Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management)
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - January 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Georgene Saliba Tags: President's Message Source Type: journals

Journal of Healthcare Risk ManagementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, is pleased to announce a new agreement with the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management to publish the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management. (JHRM). The first issue to be published under this new agreement will be Volume 29, Number 1, which is scheduled to publish in August 2009.JHRM is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) of the American Hospital Association. The journal publishes research, trends, and new developments in the field of healthcare risk management.JHRM will be available in print and online. Active ASHRM me...
Source: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management - January 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Tags: Publisher Note Source Type: journals