STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of a new online tool at the Mosby’s Nursing Consult website. The CMS Never Events section is designed to help nurses prevent the 10 ‘Never Events’ identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an October 2008 fact sheet. It seeks to help nurses to prevent so-called Never Events or Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) in the quest to improve care quality and maximise hospital reimbursement.
The launch is in response to CMS’ 2008 decision that it would no longer pay for adverse events that could be prevented through the application of specific evidence-based protocols. In addition, CMS does not permit patients to be billed for the cost of these events.
To create CMS Never Events, Elsevier researchers matched each Never Event/HAC with appropriate articles, reports, monographs and studies. The tool covers CMS’ initial list of 10 HACs. This includes foreign objects retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, stage III and IV pressure ulcers, falls and trauma, manifestations of poor glycemic control, catheter-associated urinary tract infect ion, vascular catheter associated infection, surgical site infection and deep vein thrombosis /pulmonary embolism.
Nurses who access CMS Never Events to prevent an HAC can review a definition, evidence-based nursing content, books, journals, guidelines, patient education, images and news. Nursing Consult also includes decision-making guidance on six conditions now under review by CMS for inclusion on the HAC list. Among them are delirium, ventilator-associated pneumonia, staphylococcus aureus septicemia, clostridium difficile-associated disease, Legionnaire’s disease and iatrogenic pneumothorax.
Mosby’s suite of online tools, including Mosby’s Nursing Consult with CMS Never Events, Mosby’s Nursing Skills and Mosby’s Index, is used by more than 500 hospitals across the US. CMS Never Events is a component of a suite of professional nursing tools from Elsevier. In addition to Nursing Consult, the suite includes Nursing Skills, which offers training in nearly 1,000 nursing skills and procedures, and Mosby’s Index, a database of close to 3,000 nursing resources.
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