Hospital Checklist The 12 questions every patient should ask doctors and nurses. By Rajeev Kurapati. July 13, 2015 7:26 AM. ... After admission, ...

Lisa Romano, RN, MSN, senior vice president and CNO of TeleTracking Technologies, shared a checklist for nurses to optimize patient flow on TeleTracking’s blog. 1. Advocate for proper patient ...

If the checklist proves accurate in the prediction of death within the next 30 days, a shortened version could be used for every hospital admission, they add. RELATED TOPICS Health & Medicine ...

I couldn’t get a solid answer about his code status when I asked the residents, yet every note since admission ended in, “Code Status: Full.” Clearly, the most important discussions had not occurred.

A surgical checklist can improve communication and reduce potential errors during ... The protocol then calls for doctors to discuss new admissions, changes to current patients and finally to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A checklist can improve communication and reduce errors when one doctor hands a patient off to another, a new study shows. "This is something that can be used broadly to improve ...

Australian doctors have come up with a checklist designed to spot elderly hospital patients likely to die within the next three months, it is reported in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.

While nurses can't completely control patient flow, there are several things they can do to improve bed availability and reduce length of stay, according to a blog post from TeleTracking Technologies.

The idea, said researchers from Harvard Medical School, was to prevent complications before they became serious enough to require hospital admission. The study, published in the Journal of the ...