Quality Improvement

Documentation: The Clinical Integration Specialist

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Documentation

The Clinical Integration Specialist: Improving Patient Care in the Energency Department
Paul L. Weygandt, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, CPE; Melinda Tully, CCDS, MSN; Andrew Dombro, MD

In an article posted to the Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare blog (Weygandt, 2009), we addressed a critical function for patient safety and quality: accurately communicating clinical information in real time by incorporating the clinical documentation specialist (CDS) as a key member of the clinical team.

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Infection Control

AHRQ: Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections

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AHRQ
Initiating Promising Solutions and Expanding Proven Ones

By Carolyn M. Clancy, MD

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are on everyone’s hit list, as they should be, because no patient should get sicker from a preventable infection they pick up in a hospital or other healthcare facility.

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