{"title":"President's message","authors":"Barbara McCarthy RN, MPH, CPHQ, CPHRM, DFASHRM","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21495","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 3","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39964796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What can we learn from medical journals?","authors":"Sue Boisvert BSN, MHSA, DFASHRM","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21496","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 3","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21496","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39964798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin B. Osgood MD, Sindhu Krishnan MD, Kimberly K. Wheeler DNP, RN, CNOR, Marc P. Pimentel MD, MPH, CPPS, Joshua C. Vacanti MD, Richard D. Urman MD, MBA
{"title":"Airway management in the operating room setting: An analysis of reported safety events","authors":"Kevin B. Osgood MD, Sindhu Krishnan MD, Kimberly K. Wheeler DNP, RN, CNOR, Marc P. Pimentel MD, MPH, CPPS, Joshua C. Vacanti MD, Richard D. Urman MD, MBA","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21493","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21493","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adverse event reporting systems are important tools for identifying areas of risk and opportunities quality improvement. Perioperative airway management (PAM) carries patient risk. We examine the nature of PAM incident reports at an academic tertiary care center. In this retrospective data review, perioperative safety reports filed under “Airway Management” between 2015 and 2020 were analyzed. Data analyzed included severity level (patient harm) and specific event type. There was a total of 7827 safety reports filed from January 2015 to July 2020, with 67 reports related to “Airway Management” (0.85%). The most common specific event type in this safety reporting database was “Intubation Injury (Mouth, Tooth, Airway)” (35.8%). The most common severity level of all reported events was level 2 (temporary or minor harm, 57%). Our safety reporting data demonstrates that adverse events related to PAM are likely to reach the patient and can cause significant harm. Data from our findings can help providers and risk managers to focus efforts on reducing patient harm. Strategies include continued education in technical skills and crisis management, preparation for the difficult airway, increased availability of video laryngoscopes, ongoing safety reporting and collaborative review of adverse events with implementation of quality improvement measures.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 4","pages":"36-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39837489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case law update","authors":"John C. West, Christopher J. Allman","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21494","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 4","pages":"43-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39793076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenge of competency assessment of the late-career practitioner","authors":"Mary Steffany BA, BS, MA","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21492","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21492","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Just as the general population of the United States is aging, so, too, is the population of active physicians. Training to become a physician and practice medicine is an arduous process. The competition to gain admission to medical school is fierce, the price tag of medical education is high, and waiting to learn about matching to a residency program is stressful. No wonder that physicians equate their profession with their identity. This sentiment, along with other factors, has resulted in many physicians continuing to practice well beyond the average retirement age. While each individual ages differently, there is evidence that the aging of physicians and length of time since medical school and residency is associated with deficiencies in history-taking, physical examination, record-keeping, and the ability to problem-solve. For late-career surgeons performing complex surgical procedures, there is a higher mortality rate for patients. Unlike other professions that have a mandatory retirement age, medicine does not. Health systems are grappling with how to fairly assess the competence of late-career practitioners. This article will explore that challenge from different perspectives, identify best practices, and describe how a risk manager can facilitate stakeholder discussion focused on implementing a competency-assessment process that is fair and effective.</p>","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 3","pages":"31-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39703590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard B Stuart DSW, ABPP, George Birchfield MD, Timothy E Little MD, Susan Wetstone MD, James McDermott MD
{"title":"Use of conditional medical orders to minimize moral, ethical, and legal risk in critical care","authors":"Richard B Stuart DSW, ABPP, George Birchfield MD, Timothy E Little MD, Susan Wetstone MD, James McDermott MD","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21487","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21487","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Risk managers and ethicists monitor adherence to codes of conduct in the delivery of medical services and proactively participate with providers to create protocols that minimize the moral, ethical, and legal risks inherent in many commonly used medical protocols. “Code/no code” medical orders work well for patients at the extremes who always or never want to undergo a procedure, but they create troubling uncertainties for others by preventing them from expressly requesting procedures under some circumstances but not others. Obeying binary orders such as DNAR (Do Not Attempt Resuscitation) can allow deaths that a patient might want to delay or can expose patients to prolonged suffering they wish to avoid. These risks can be reduced by: (1) fully explaining the nature of proposed interventions and their possible beneficial and adverse effects in varying circumstances; and (2) replacing the traditional dichotomy with a continuum of options from always, through conditionally sometime, to never orders adapted to a range of situations and preferences. The Conditional Medical Orders (CMO) form summarizes patients’ preferences regarding resuscitation, ventilation, and artificial hydration and nutrition (ANH) is an efficient way to increases the chance that patients will undergo only the treatments they want.</p>","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 3","pages":"14-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/21/09/JHRM-41-14.PMC9543663.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39723493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sindhu Krishnan MD, Kimberly K. Wheeler DNP, RN, CNOR, Marc Philip Pimentel MD, MPH, CPPS, Joshua C. Vacanti MD, Richard D. Urman MD, MBA
{"title":"The nature of reported safety events related to care coordination in the operating room setting in a tertiary academic center","authors":"Sindhu Krishnan MD, Kimberly K. Wheeler DNP, RN, CNOR, Marc Philip Pimentel MD, MPH, CPPS, Joshua C. Vacanti MD, Richard D. Urman MD, MBA","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21491","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21491","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adverse event reporting systems are important tools for identifying areas of risk and opportunities for education and improvement. Our goal was to examine the nature of perioperative incident reports related to care coordination that were filed by staff at an academic tertiary care center.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this retrospective data review, perioperative safety reports between 2015 and 2020 were analyzed. Information examined included the type of staff who initiated the report, location of the incident, type of incident and the severity level of event, including patient harm.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Out of the 7827 reports evaluated, 61.2% of reports were filed by nurses, and 5.6% by physicians. We investigated one particular category called “coordination of care” and found the specific event most commonly reported was insufficient handoff (15.0%–26.9%), with severity level reported primarily being no to minor harm reaching the patient. However, communication failures were judged to be one of leading causes of inadvertent harm.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>It is imperative for hospital incident reporting systems to collect data on issues related to communication failures and to design interventions with the help of frontline staff to provide high quality, safe care to patients and to remain compliant with regulatory requirements and hospital policies.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 3","pages":"25-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39570705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information - About ASHRM","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhrm.21420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137946821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information - Editorial Review Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhrm.21422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhrm.21422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137946822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A little help from my friends","authors":"Sue Boisvert BSN MHSA, CPPS, CPHRM, DFASHRM","doi":"10.1002/jhrm.21488","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhrm.21488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39819,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39537261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}