Understanding Care Transitions as a Patient Safety Issue

Understanding Care Transitions as a Patient Safety Issue

The global re-hospitalization rate of a community reflects the cumulative quality of care provided across diverse healthcare settings and providers.

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Revisiting the Perinatal Adverse Outcome Index

Revisiting the Perinatal Adverse Outcome Index

The challenge of sorting through copious amounts of data to find the essential information is not new. Over the years, various professions have developed key markers to highlight the essential. For example, clinicians use vital signs, accountants have bottom lines, and journalists pen pithy headlines.

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards New Funding to AACN to Engage Hospital Leaders in Nurse-Led Quality and Safety Movement

Washington, May, 6, 2011—The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announces that the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $386,000 in new funding to engage hospital leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) in the innovative work underway to improve healthcare quality and patient safety.

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Cautious Patient Foundation Announces New Grants Program Aimed to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Healthcare

Houston, Texas, April 18, 2011—The Cautious Patient Foundation (CPF), the outreach and educational arm of Patient Always First, a nonprofit organization committed to educating and empowering patients in the quest for quality health care, announced a new grants program to support initiatives that successfully move patients toward greater engagement in their personal or family healthcare process.

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Patient Mobilization

Patient Mobilization

Best practices improve health outcomes and ensure safety for patients and staff alike.

As research supports the critical need for mobilizing hospitalized patients, the adage “If you don’t use it, you will lose it” sums up the weakness and loss of functional status seen with prolonged bed rest. In the hospital setting, patients often depend on their caregivers for mobilization.

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Safer PCA Therapy

Safer PCA Therapy

Patient Safety Benefits of Continuous Respiratory Rate and End Tidal Monitoring

The following interviews were adapted from a November 12, 2010, webcast, “Safer PCA Therapy,” that explored the application of continuous monitoring for patients receiving opioids, most typically using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).

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