Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...

September 16th, 2016
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The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...

September 16th, 2016
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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

September 16th, 2016
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The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...

September 16th, 2016
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Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

March 14th, 2016
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Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

October 6th, 2015
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This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

July 1st, 2015
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Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

June 16th, 2015
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

June 16th, 2015
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The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

June 16th, 2015
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At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

November 12th, 2012
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AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

September 13th, 2012
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A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

September 9th, 2012
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An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

September 3rd, 2012
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This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

February 22nd, 2012
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This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

November 1st, 2011
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To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

March 28th, 2011
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