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Top Rapid Response Teams Have Increased Autonomy
Researchers interviewed 158 hospital staff members including nurses, physicians, and administrators during site visits to nine hospitals participating in the Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation program.
 

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Leapfrog Leader Pushes for Adoption of Expanded Medical Error Policy
Leapfrog is promoting a nine-point Never Event Policy to help health systems and hospitals address catastrophic medical errors. The nonprofit group defines a never event as egregious mistakes such as surgery performed on the wrong patient or foreign objects left inside a patient after surgery.
How BJC HealthCare Cut Patient Harm Events 75% by Targeting 5 Factors
In 2008, St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare launched a patient safety and quality improvement initiative that was designed to dramatically reduce patient harm events over a five-year period and sustain the reductions for an additional five years.
Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult ICUs: A Three-Pronged Approach
Based on the severity and urgency of preventing CAUTIs, the University of Rochester Medical Center coordinated a project team to collect and analyze CAUTI data and further identify prevention techniques in adult ICUs.
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Steps Toward Better, More Efficient EVS Results
Clean Healing is the goal of every hospital. To promote healing, hospitals must provide an infection-free environment. The work of the environmental services department (EVS) is vital to that effort. EVS is far more than just housekeeping.
 

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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technology

Join us on Thursday, August 22 for a free webinar examining the importance of hand hygiene monitoring technology. Speaker Payal K. Patel, MD, MPH, will discuss the importance of improving your facility's hand hygiene rates, how monitoring technologies play a critical role in that process, and other innovative ways to keep patients and providers safe.

 

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