To develop a descriptive model of preventability for maternal morbidity and mortality that can be used in quality assurance and morbidity and mortality review processes. This descriptive study was ...

Are oncology readmissions preventable? If so, what resources and changes in practice or culture would be required to reduce readmissions? Three independent reviewers analyzed 72 hospital readmissions ...

Ever watch a basketball game and notice the player who sits on the offensive side of the court looking for easy baskets? Basketball, soccer, or even hockey fans may recall instances of cherry-picking ...

Three independent reviewers analyzed 72 hospital readmissions and found that 22 (31%) of the 72 readmissions were preventable. The most common causes of preventability were overwhelming symptoms in ...

A formal rulemaking likely will not be required to make permanent a federal demonstration project that seeks to assign proper blame for trucking accidents. The 24-month "Crash Preventability ...

Transport Topics reports in its April 3 article titled “Crash Not Your Fault? FMCSA Says Soon It Won’t Hurt Your CSA Score” that the agency intends to identify no-fault crashes beginning in August.

Faced with persistent pressure from truckers—and a recent nudge from Congress—the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is set to launch its latest attempt to incorporate crash preventability ...

After a decade of trucking companies complaining that the government unfairly counted crashes against their safety record that were not their fault, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ...

Your driver had an accident. You determine that it was “preventable”. You file the determination away. File closed. Closed, that is, until a lawsuit is filed. The court may hold that you have admitted ...

Trucking coalition has petitioned FMCSA to start a rulemaking on how it analyzes and publishes data on motor carrier crashes. A coalition of 10 trucking-related stakeholders, including several lobbies ...

Federal regulators are moving ahead on transitioning into a long-term crash preventability determination program by seeking comment on expanding the types of crashes that carriers can have removed ...