• Critical Management Solutions can provide your healthcare organization with many useful risk reduction strategies tailored to meet your unique needs. Among those we might suggest include:
  
  
  • Revising the formulary selection/approval policy and criteria to consider the potential for medication error due to sound or look-alike drug names;
  • Policy development regarding verbal telephone orders;
  • Requiring oral verification of the correct site in the operating room by each and every member of the surgical team;
  • Insisting upon an active, not passive, communication procedure for verifying the correct patient, procedure and site in the operating room;
  • Use of criteria to determine patient assignment to specific units or locations within units;
  • Monitoring consistency of patient observation procedures;
  • Prohibit simultaneous crossmatching of multiple patients by the same technologist and the starting of a crossmatch before the order is physically received;
  • Restricting window closures/stops openings to 3 inches or less.
    

  An unexpected medical crisis demands timely, highly confidential and experienced management responses.

  Critical Management Solutions has the expertise and experience the help hospitals and other healthcare organizations reduce their risk of and exposure to a devastating medical error.
  

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