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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In October 2007, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston set the goal of eliminating all preventable harm. The hospital’s board and quality leaders had went on a quality- and patient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachel L. Wasserman, PharmD, of the Department of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the lead author and David W. Bates, MD, medical director of Clinical and Quality ...

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 ...