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March/April 2012

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• Smart Pump Workarounds: What's the Legal Risk?

• Applying Lessons Learned to Accelerated Adoption of BCMA

• Q & A with Diane Pinakiewicz: ‘Patient Safety Is Everyone’s Work’

• Noah’s Story: Please Listen

• We Can All Define Patient Safety… or Can We?

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• Editor's Notebook: A New Look, Nickname, and Expanded Content

• AHRQ: Evidence-Based Methods and Tools Help Reduce Risk of Falls in Hospitals

• Health IT & Quality: Sensory Overload?

• Meaningful Use: The Next Stage for BCMA

• Human Factors: Design Principles for Manual Safety Systems

• ISMP: Building Patient Safety Skills: Common Pitfalls in Root Cause Analysis

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Engaging Patients and Families in Root Cause Analysis of Sentinel Healthcare Events: The Story of Justin Micalizzi

By Susan Carr

Working with two patient advocates, the Reliability Center has released a webcast that analyzes the sudden, unexpected death in January 2001 of 11-year-old Justin Micalizzi immediately following surgery for an infected ankle. For 10 years, the Micalizzi family—especially his mother, Dale, now a well known patient safety advocate—sought unsuccessfully and without the cooperation of the hospital to discover what caused Justin’s death or at least to elicit a clear and honest pledge that the hospital would commit sincerely to understanding what had happened.

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UC Irvine Medical Center Selects iSirona for Medical Device Integration

iSirona, a provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, announced on May 8 that UC Irvine Medical Center will be implementing iSirona's device connectivity solution throughout its campus.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:35
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HMS Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality

Established by the academic teaching institutions and Harvard Medical School (HMS), the HMS Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality is proud to present its first four recipients representing the Class of 2012.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:30
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NPSF Awards Research Grants for Patient Safety Projects

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) announced on May 9 that it has awarded a total of $200,000 in grants for two innovative patient safety research projects. The grants are awarded through the NPSF Research Grants Program, which promotes studies leading to the prevention of human errors, system errors, patient injuries, and their consequences.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:28
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I-PASS: Standardizing Patient "Handoffs" to Reduce Medical Errors

A new patient safety and medical education initiative, standardizing and improving how patient care is "handed off" during hospital shift changes, can reduce medical errors by as much as 40 percent, report physicians at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:25
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