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Leadership

IRM and Risk Register

21 Questions: Guidance for Healthcare Boards on What They Should Ask Senior Leaders About Risk

This resource is only available in PDF. To download, select the icon from the top right-hand corner of this page.HIROC is committed to providing accessible content. If you…
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Patient Deterioration – Intensive Care Unit

Key Words Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Acute Care, Patient Deterioration, Critical Test Results/Laboratory Testing, Documentation, Triage Assessment, Interprofessional…
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Patient Deterioration – Mental Health – Understaffing

Key Words Psychiatry, Inpatient Suicide, Monitoring, Process Improvement, Documentation, Patient Deterioration, Staffing Anecdotal, Notes Abstract An at-risk patient died by suicide…
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Care – Medication Adverse Events

Medication adverse events may occur in any healthcare setting and may result in significant harm to patients. Medication adverse events may be a result of human error (e.g.,…
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Discharge Transportation to Home

Overview of issue Healthcare organizations have a duty to provide a comprehensive approach to patient discharge. While there are many issues to address at the time of discharge,…
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Abuse

Care – Security / Assault

This risk profile relates to safety and security and the risk of harm to patients, clients, visitors, volunteers, employees, and healthcare providers. Assaults, threats, or environmental…
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Obstetrics

Post-Epidural Placental Abruption

Key Words Obstetrics, Acute Care, Interprofessional Communication, Monitoring, Patient Deterioration, Epidural, Placental Abruption Abstract Abnormal fetal…
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