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Place of hand sanitizer in patient room affects the usage
26 August 2010A study published in the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care showed that certain design factors at healthcare facilities can enhance patient safety. In particular the study focused on the placement of hand sanitizer pumps in patient rooms and the question if their placement had any correlation to their usage by clinicians.
Canadian hospital chooses top European system to improve patient safety and quality
18 August 2010The Patient Safety Company is pleased to announce its first sale of its Clinical Risk Management System in Canada to Headwaters Health Care Centre, a community hospital in Orangeville, near Toronto, Ontario. “Although we are represented in 18 countries, this is our first sale in North America. It represents a validation of the unique approach we’ve taken to help hospitals improve quality and patient safety in other countries,” said Niels Greidanus, CEO of the Patient Safety Company in the Netherlands.
UZ Leuven first Belgian hospital with JCI accreditation
04 August 2010University hospital UZ Leuven is the first hospital in Belgium that has received the international recognized JCI accreditation. Joint Commission International (JCI) is an organization that determines international norms, the so called JCI standards, in the field of quality of health care and patient safety. If inspection by JCI proves that the quality system of the health care organization meets their high standards, JCI rewards this with a hospital wide accreditation.
Moderate progress implementation CRMS in Dutch hospitals
03 August 2010Dutch hospitals are doing well when it comes to the improvement of safety and the implementation of a Clinical Risk Management System (CRMS). Yet, according to the Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) hospitals are still not focused enough on managing risks on a systematically basis.
AMA helps physicians optimize patient safety
03 August 2010To help physicians optimize the quality and safety of patient care, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a report focused on these important health care issues. A guide to patient safety organizations (PSOs) is being offered free online to all physicians to help them participate in PSOs, a way for physicians to voluntarily report and learn from adverse safety events.
German hospital implements TPSC Clinical Risk Management System
30 July 2010Hospital Centre of Porto implements incident registration system of TPSC
30 July 2010The Portuguese Hospital Centre of Porto chooses the Clinical Risk Management System (CRMS) of The Patient Safety Company (TPSC) to register and analyze (near) incidents in the future. The hospital group established a partnership with Antares Consulting and The Patient Safety Company to implement the CRMS.
Mirror, mirror on the wall
21 July 2010Even though having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries.
Great fluctuation in mortality rates Dutch hospitals
21 July 2010In Dutch hospitals every year between 1,4 and 2,7 percent of the patients dies. This is shown by raw mortality rates of 2009 that have been made public by the Dutch Hospital Association (NVZ) and the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU).
Dutch St Elisabeth Hospital Tilburg chooses Clinical Risk Management System
06 July 2010After an intensive selection process the Dutch hospital St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg has chosen for the Clinical Risk Management System (CRMS) of The Patient Safety Company (TPSC). The TPSC CRMS will replace the current incident registration system.
