10 articles

Quality & Patient Safety

Infection control, incident reporting, clinical audit, and patient safety programmes.

High-Alert and LASA Medication Controls: Building Your Own Lists

How to build high-alert and look-alike sound-alike lists from your actual formulary and your own error data, apply tall man lettering, segregate storage, control concentrated electrolytes, and run independent double checks that are genuinely independent.

Dr. Harsh Vasa

Jul 10, 2026 · 11 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Setting Up a Hospital Mortality Review Committee That Works

Case selection criteria, structured judgement review before the meeting, preventability grading without blame, meeting and minute discipline, the confidentiality position in India, and the records an assessor will ask to see.

Shreya Kamath

Jun 26, 2026 · 10 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Root Cause Analysis After a Sentinel Event: Making It Change Things

Running an RCA that produces real change: securing facts in the first 72 hours, team composition, timeline reconstruction, fishbone and 5 Whys done properly, the action hierarchy, and CAPA closure that survives verification.

Dr. Harsh Vasa

Jun 12, 2026 · 11 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Incident Reporting Systems That Hospital Staff Actually Use

Designing non-punitive incident reporting: near miss and sentinel event definitions, reporting windows, a form people will finish, the anonymity question, triage in the first 24 hours, and the feedback loop that lifts reporting rates.

Dr. Harsh Vasa

May 29, 2026 · 10 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

NABH 6th Edition: Decoding Core Objective Elements and Levels

How the Core, Commitment, Achievement and Excellence classification of objective elements works, what gets assessed at every assessment, how to run your own edition gap analysis, and a chapter-by-chapter preparation sequence.

Shreya Kamath

May 15, 2026 · 11 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Hand Hygiene Audit Methodology: Numbers You Can Actually Trust

Designing hand hygiene observation that produces believable compliance figures: the WHO 5 Moments, counting opportunities correctly, sample size per unit, observer training and bias, the Hawthorne effect, and why 95 per cent is usually a measurement artefact.

Dr. Pallavi Rane

May 1, 2026 · 10 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

HAI Benchmarking for Indian Hospitals: Comparing Rates Honestly

Why comparing your CLABSI or CAUTI rate against a published figure usually misleads, what the ICMR, INICC and NHSN networks actually report, and how to build an internal trend baseline that stands up to scrutiny instead.

Shreya Kamath

Apr 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Device Days and HAI Rates: How to Count and Calculate Correctly

The calculation behind CLABSI, CAUTI and VAP rates: the daily census counting rule, device utilisation ratio, attribution windows, worked examples, and the specific counting errors that quietly inflate or deflate a hospital's numbers.

Dr. Pallavi Rane

Apr 3, 2026 · 11 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Building Your First Hospital Antibiogram: A Step-by-Step Method

The method behind a cumulative antibiogram: which isolates qualify, first-isolate deduplication, the 30-isolate reporting threshold, building it in WHONET, unit-specific versions, and how often to republish.

Dr. Pallavi Rane

Mar 20, 2026 · 10 min read

Quality & Patient Safety

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme Setup for a 200-Bed Hospital

How to stand up an AMSP under ICMR guidance: who sits on the team, an antibiotic policy anchored to your own antibiogram, restricted-drug approval that survives a 2 a.m. sepsis call, audit and feedback, and a realistic first 90 days.

Dr. Pallavi Rane

Mar 6, 2026 · 11 min read