Quality Quarterly

Analysis Paper: Workplace Violence in Hospitals: Issues, Trends, Prevention, and Response 

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Key Points: 

  • When it comes to non-fatal workplace violence incidents that result in days away from work, health care environments are the most represented — and these incidents most frequently occur in hospital emergency departments. 
  • It is widely acknowledged that incidences of workplace violence are underreported by the hospital staff and providers, a problem that may lie in our health care culture: While we have placed a great deal of focus on patient experience and patient safety, we have placed much less focus on worker safety. 
  • For both prevention of and response to workplace violence, hospitals should establish an effective workplace violence prevention program. 
  • Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Now Available 

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    HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the California Hospital Association (CHA), creates and distributes quarterly dashboards of publicly available quality data for each CHA acute care member hospital. These model dashboards currently provide information on eight measures, with over 90 total measures on the data tab.   

    Use of Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Jumps 

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    Use of HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews.  

    Safe Table Presentation: Lessons Learned from an Alcohol Withdrawal Mortality Case 

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    A well-done root cause analysis (RCA) can save lives, especially when it is shared at a CHPSO Safe Table so that many hospitals can benefit. At a Safe Table in February, a CHPSO member shared a situation involving the death of a patient who was admitted for chest pain, abdominal pain, and alcohol withdrawal.  

    Use of Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Continues to Increase 

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    The use of HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews.   

    Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Will Be Available Soon 

    This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.

    HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the California Hospital Association (CHA), creates and distributes quarterly dashboards of publicly available quality data for each CHA acute care member hospital. These model dashboards currently provide information on eight measures and over 80 total measures on the data tab.