A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...

December 5th, 2011
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

November 7th, 2011
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"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

October 24th, 2011
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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

August 1st, 2011
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Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

July 11th, 2011
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The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

June 27th, 2011
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Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

June 6th, 2011
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Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

May 16th, 2011
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Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

April 11th, 2011
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March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

March 7th, 2011
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At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

February 14th, 2011
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One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

January 24th, 2011
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