Clinical Alerts

Clinical Alerts focus on problems that the Office of Health Care Quality has identified through its regulatory activities and that may pose issues in health care facilities across the State. It is our hope that you will find these “Clinical Alerts” helpful and that you will consider them in your performance improvement/quality assurance activities:

• Clinical Alert - Volume 6, Number 1 - Winter 2009 - It Takes a Village: Anticipating and Managing Medication Side Effects
• Clinical Alert - Volume 5, Number 2 - Fall 2008 - Preventing Retained Foreign Bodies
• Clinical Alert - Volume 5, Number 1 - Fall 2008 - IV Promethazine Injuries
• Clinical Alert - Volume 4, Number 3 - Winter 2007 - An Unnecessary Distraction: Vendors in the Operating Room
• Clinical Alert - Volume 4, Number 2 - Fall 2007 - Wrong site procedures and retained foreign bodies: Why are they still happening in Maryland hospitals?
• Clinical Alert - Volume 4, Number 1 - Spring 2007 - Medication reconciliation error between a hospital and long term care facility
• Clinical Alert - Volume 3, Number 3 - Fall 2005 -OHCQ Review of Two Root Cause Analyses: Are You Looking as Hard as You Might?
• Clinical Alert - Volume 3, Number 2 - Fall 2005 - Potassium: Still a Very Dangerous Drug
• Clinical Alert - Volume 3, Number 1 - Spring 2005 - Falls in Maryland Hospitals
• Clinical Alert - Volume 2, Number 2 - Summer 2003 - Acinetobacter Infections In Hospitals
• Clinical Alert - Volume 2, Number 1 - Spring 2003 - Communication Failure Leads to Unnecessary Surgery
• Clinical Alert - Volume 1, Number 1 - Summer 2002 - Advance Healthcare Decisions
• Clinical Alert - Volume 1, Number 1 - 2001 - WARFARIN