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Safety and Quality in Radiology

November 17, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

By Susan Carr

In 3rd annual conference, American College of Radiology focused on safety, utilization, process improvement, and physician outcomes.

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Fortify HIT Contracts with Education and Ethics to Protect Patient Safety, Say Informatics Experts

November 11, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

An original and progressive report on health information technology (HIT) vendors, their customers and patients, published online, makes ground-breaking recommendations for new practices that target the reduction or elimination of tensions that currently mar relationships between many HIT vendors and their customers, specifically with regard to indemnity and error management of HIT systems.

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New Service To Address CT Radiation Dose Safety

November 8, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Keeping radiation dose in check is a top safety concern for today’s hospitals, particularly in computed tomography (CT), which has undergone some significant technological advances in the last ten years. The down side is that CT delivers some of the highest radiation doses in diagnostic radiology.

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Study Confirms Passive Safety Devices Are Most Effective in Needlestick Injury Prevention

October 26, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

A landmark study of 22 million safety devices used in 61 French hospitals over a two-year period has confirmed the theory that passive, fully automatic safety devices offer significantly better protection against accidental needlestick injuries (NSIs) than early generation active safety technologies such as semi-automatic (push-button) devices or those with manually sliding shields or hinged caps.

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CareFusion Selects Palomar Pomerado Health as Development Partner for Patient Safety Technologies

October 26, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), a Magnet® designated health system located in North County, San Diego, has been selected by San Diego-based CareFusion, a global medical technology company, as a development partner for the latest Pyxis technologies that focus on improving the safety and cost of health care.

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NPSF Launches its 2011 Patient Safety Awareness Week Campaign

October 20, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) is an annual, NPSF-led education and awareness-building campaign for healthcare safety.

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Minimize Harm for All

October 19, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

By Susan Carr

As much as we’d like to think that we can “get to zero” for all recurring medical errors, mistakes and adverse events will be part of medicine for the foreseeable future. In addition to working on prevention and mitigation of harm, clinicians and healthcare organizations should work on planning for the inevitable, in order to minimize harm and promote healing.

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P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics

September 30, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Raising SBAR to a Higher Level
P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics

By Larry Veltman, MD, FACOG; Kristine Larison, RNC, BSN, MBA

Despite a widespread effort to improve patient safety in obstetrics, injuries still occur. These injuries can be devastating both to families who sustain them and to the caregivers involved in the actual event.

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Automated Informed Consent

September 30, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Automated Informed Consent
Patients and Institutions Benefit Alike

By Kimberly McKenzie, RN, MSN, CNA, CPHQ, and Pat Karnstedt, RN, MSN, OCN

The process of obtaining informed consent from patients prior to providing certain medical services has evolved gradually over the years.

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Accreditation Canada Report Explores the Connection Between Patient Safety and Quality of Worklife in Healthcare

September 29, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Accreditation Canada’s 2010 national report on health care in Canada explores the connection between quality of worklife and patient safety in health organizations.