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Burnout is associated with adverse outcomes including medical errors and lower quality of care. While many studies have focused on physician or nurse burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic increased stress across the healthcare workforce, including support staff and healthcare teams who have a crucial role in patient care.
Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), has been awarded the 2023 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award in the individual category, along with Dr. Kathryn Kellogg, Vice President for Patient Safety at the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety.
A 2016 Johns Hopkins study found more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year from medical errors, ...
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History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way. Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more. In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a long way to go to make healthcare more accessible to everyone. Here are the 25 shocking statistics that keep healthcare executives up at night. Medicare reimbursements declined by 9% The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found that hospitals experienced a -8.5%...