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Prof. Miroslav Harjaček,MD PhD — Prof. Miroslav Harjaček MD PhD

Poor communication and documentation is bad business (Aug 24)

Health care delivery is a complex enterprise that involves multiple interactions among multiple stakeholders. Research indicates that better patient care experiences via effective communication and documentation is associated with higher levels of adherence to recommended prevention and treatment processes, better clinical outcomes, better patient safety within hospitals, and less health care utilization.

Harriet Smith, Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare — Harriet Smith Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare

‘Biggest Scandal in Global Healthcare’ (Jul 30)

Britain’s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has recently announced that the number of avoidable deaths which have occurred in the NHS in Britain is the ‘biggest scandal in global healthcare’. Is he correct? The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have produced research which states that 1 in 28 deaths could be attributed to poor patient care – and that 750 patients a month are dying unnecessarily.

Cutting readmissions for sepsis (Jun 26)

Sepsis is a global healthcare problem and has been around since the dawn of time, having been described for more than 2000 years. Severe sepsis remains both an important clinical challenge and an economic burden.

High Incident Reporting is a mark of a high reliability organisation (Jun 8)

‘High reliability organisations are organisations that work in situations that have the potential for large-scale risk and harm, but which manage to balance effectiveness, efficiency and safety. They also minimise errors through teamwork, awareness of potential risk and constant improvement’ [The Health Foundation November 2011]

From mouse to men – the MRSA story (Jun 1)

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health in both US and Europe, leading to increasing healthcare costs, prolonged hospital stays, treatment failures, and sometimes death.

The autopsy as a quality assurance tool? (Apr 6)

During the past several decades the aims of the autopsy have changed considerably. The traditional uses of autopsy were determination or confirmation of the cause and mechanism of death, research into the nature of disease and the identification of specific diseases, improvement in the practice of medicine through application of autopsy findings to clinical practice, and education of medical students.

Why the Hospital Safety Score Works (Mar 24)

In some hospitals, patient safety is a top priority. But some hospitals don’t have teams that work well together, or good leadership to ensure that patient safety is the number one priority.

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