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Ensuring Staff Safety Against Violent Patients
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
12/27/16 • 30 min
Violence against health care workers is increasing. With fewer mental health services available, health care workers have disproportionate exposure to potentially dangerous patients. This article reviews the experience of one nurse who was severely injured by a patient and the lessons learned by the hospital where the incident occurred regarding minimizing the risk of staff injury when providing care for potentially violent patients. We interview Robert P. Roca, MD, MPH, MBA; Antonio DePaolo, PhD; Ernestine Cosby, RN; and Bolarin Kehinde, RN, to shed light on this serious issue.
Article discussed in this episode: Ensuring Staff Safety When Treating Potentially Violent Patients
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Avoiding Wrong-Site Surgery
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
11/28/17 • 24 min
There are about 500 wrong-site surgeries performed in the United States every year. Simple maneuvers can minimize the risk for these occurring. This JAMA Performance Improvement podcast reviews a case of wrong-site surgery and discusses potential ways to avoid it.
Interviewees include Armando Giuliano, MD, Harry Sax, MD, Kathryn Englehart, MD, and David Baker, MD, from The Joint Commission.
Read the article: Wrong-Site Surgery
Author Affiliations:
Kathryn Englehart, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University
Poof – It’s Gone – The Disappearing Order That Led to a Patient Getting an Unnecessary Procedure
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
01/18/19 • 20 min
Electronic health records are the bane of most clinicians’ existence. They were supposed to help us but not only have they made life more difficult for clinicians, they are the cause of medical errors. Described here is a case of the patient receiving an unnecessary procedure because an order was not canceled in an EHR where it had disappeared from the clinicians’ view. A second theme in this case that is consistent in nearly all of the JAMA Performance Improvement articles to date is inadequate communication among clinicians.
The Aging Clinician: When Should Older Clinicians' Cognitive Abilities Be Evaluated?, Part 2
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
04/28/20 • 9 min
As physicians age, they experience the inevitable decline of cognitive and physical function. It is not clear how that affects clinical practice. Jeffrey Saver, MD, vice chair of neurology at UCLA and a JAMA Associate Editor, discusses how to best assess the clinical performance of aging physicians.
The Aging Clinician: When Should Older Clinicians' Cognitive Abilities Be Evaluated?, Part 1
Read the article:
Cognitive Testing of Older Clinicians Prior to Recredentialing
Improving Management of Elevated Liver Function Tests in Post Liver Transplant Patients
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
11/10/20 • 17 min
There are hundreds of thousands of liver transplant patients, all of whom will be seen in general clinical practices. It is common for them to develop elevated liver enzymes—a potentially serious problem that may be a sign that the transplanted liver is failing. Traditionally, patients with these findings are sent to a liver transplant center for an inpatient workup. A new protocol facilitating management of most of these patients in routine outpatient clinics has been developed, greatly improving the efficiency of managing patients with this clinical problem. Fady Kaldas, MD, director of the Dumont-UCLA transplant center, discusses how to manage elevated liver function results in liver transplant patients on an outpatient basis.
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Outpatient Management of Liver Function Test Abnormalities in Patients With a Liver Transplant
Managing Patients With a Latex Allergy
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
01/17/17 • 32 min
Latex allergy is common and usually benign but at times can be life-threatening. What can clinicians do to minimize the risk of serious complications attributable to latex allergy? We interview Cynthia Barnard, PhD, MBA, MSJS, and Erin Slade-Smith, MSN, RN, CNOR, both from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and David W. Baker, MD, MPH, FACP, from The Joint Commission, to shed light on this serious issue.
Article discussed in this episode: Management of a Patient With a Latex Allergy
Performing the Wrong Procedure
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
09/20/16 • 19 min
What to do when the wrong procedure is performed? In this first installment of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm we explore the options for dealing with this very difficult problem with Tami Minnier, RN, MSN, Paul Phrampus, MD, Linda Waddell, RN, MSN, and David Baker, MD, MPH, FACP. Air traffic audio courtesy of LiveATC.net, used with permission.
A Better Way to Manage Chronic Medical Conditions in Homeless Emergency Department Patients
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
12/22/20 • 35 min
Homeless patients with chronic medical conditions who need long-term care often repeatedly present to emergency departments to receive treatment. Following a performance improvement analysis, clinicians at UCSF developed an emergency department–based team who work with the community to provide care for this challenging population. Hemal Kanzaria, MD, and Jack Chase, MD, discuss how UCSF has addressed this clinical problem.
How to Reduce Emergency Department Dwell Time
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
03/19/19 • 24 min
Chaos in the emergency department is common. How to fix it is not always clear. Mary P. Mercer, MD, MPH, from the University of California, San Francisco, discusses how they successfully fixed their long dwell times at the emergency department at San Francisco General Hospital. Their solution was to create a fast-track unit that managed low-acuity patients separately from the rest of the emergency department cases. The most important aspect of this quality improvement effort was the ongoing and regular engagement of executives from the medical center with frontline staff.
Read the article: Reducing Emergency Department Length of Stay
What to Do When There Is an Overdose of Insulin
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
12/26/17 • 32 min
It is very easy to confuse drug concentrations and vials containing different amounts of drugs in the hospital setting. It is not uncommon to have dosing errors occur. In this podcast, we discuss how to manage an overdose of insulin and also how to implement preventive measures in the hospital environment to minimize the risk of drug dosing errors. Interviewees include Cynthia Barnard, PhD, MBA, MSJS, from Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Lara K. Ellinger, PharmD, BCPS, from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Keith Hemmert, MD, from Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.
Read the article: Insulin Dosing Error in a Patient With Severe Hyperkalemia
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How many episodes does JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm have?
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm currently has 15 episodes available.
What topics does JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Medicine, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm?
The episode title 'Ensuring Staff Safety Against Violent Patients' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm?
The average episode length on JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm is 25 minutes.
How often are episodes of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm released?
Episodes of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm are typically released every 84 days.
When was the first episode of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm?
The first episode of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm was released on Sep 20, 2016.
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