This week in #patientsafety, all quiet on the PPAHS front. We’re working on a few longer-form pieces and podcasts, so stay tuned! From around the web, our top news picks for the week focus on ambulatory care, sepsis, and painkiller prescriptions in Canada.
From PPAHS:
Nothing this week.
From Around the Web:
The Joint Commission publishes ambulatory care, office-based surgery chapters. The chapters describe how ambulatory care organizations and office-based surgery practices apply The Joint Commission’s requirements for patient safety.
Sepsis drives more readmissions than medical conditions tracked by CMS. Sepsis accounts for more 30-day readmissions and is more costly than heart attacks, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia, according to new research in JAMA.
Guidelines for prescribing painkillers are silent on acute-pain treatment. In Canada, new national standards for prescribing painkillers do not address treating patients with acute pain–and some are questioning whether Health Canada’s rejection of a request to expand the scope of the standards was the right decision.