Overlapping surgery – when surgeons schedule distinct procedures on different patients concurrently – has raised safety concerns but recent studies have not found significant differences in perioperative outcomes. This retrospective cohort study including over 87,000 surgical cases found that overlapping surgeries increased operative times but did not lead to increased in-hospital mortality, adverse events, or readmission rates when compared to nonoverlapping cases.

The Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUIIPPED) program is a multicomponent intervention intended to reduce potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prescribing among older adults who are discharged from the emergency department (ED). This cluster-randomized trial set at eight Veterans Health Administration (VA) EDs compared the impact of two approaches to the audit and feedback component of the intervention – active provider feedback using academic detailing (i.e., educational outreach visits to improve clinical decision making) versus passive provider feedback using dashboard based on the Beers criteria. Researchers found that academic detailing significantly improved PIM prescribing compared to sites using the dashboard, but noted that dashboard-based audit and feedback may be a reasonable strategy EDs with limited resources.

… about patient safety . This retrospective cohort study at a single academic medical center did not find evidence of …