Patient Safety Tool: Hand Hygiene Observation Chart Park Nicollet Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minn., offers a complimentary hand hygiene observation tool.

Intuition is the name we give to unconscious processes that can produce the right answer, even when we don’t know why. A gut feeling that something is wrong may be the detection of subtle yet ...

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Biomedical engineers and clinicians at the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals in England have replaced traditional paper observation charts with iPads equipped with an early ...

Handwritten medical observation charts could become a thing of the past in UK hospitals with the development of an iPad-based patient monitoring system. Developed in Oxford hospitals, the iPad ...

To dodge the penalty, hospitals put the patient under “observation.” It’s just a word on the chart. The patient may get the same tests and be put in the same room as if he had been admitted.

Patients admitted for observation can face steep drug bills By ABC News April 30, 2012, 6:26 PM ...

Is the patient using the same oxygen delivery system (device and flow rate) as that listed on the bedside observation chart? What device was the patient actually using at the time of the audit?

Health Inc. For Hospital Patients, Observation Status Can Prove Costly September 4, 20133:40 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition By ...

57 Background: In July 2014, following judicial review, the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients was withdrawn from the UK. An individualised approach to care for dying patients was advised, laid ...