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What distinguishes high-performing multi-hospital health systems from the rest? With support from The Commonwealth Fund, that's what the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) set out to uncover in a yearlong research project.
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Color is everywhere in our world. Think of all the colors we use for navigating traffic and the unrest it would cause if those signs were taken away. But experts say beware of color in health care; they can cause indelible harm, even death.
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An adverse event in the ED at University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas might have drawn negative media coverage and state and federal investigations, but it also led to process changes that the ED managers say have made a world of difference in patient satisfaction and quality.
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As part of its Standards Improvement Initiative, The Joint Commission has moved the National Patient Safety Goal on abbreviations into the information management standard IM.02.02.01, element of performance 2.
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Kathleen Rauch, RN, BSN, director, Center for Clinical and Operational Performance Analysis, Risk Management & Infection Control at Princeton Healthcare System, felt pretty good coming out of a recent Joint Commission survey. Because she knew what to expect and what was needed to get ready.
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According to experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with, the two biggest barriers to a robust reporting system are employees' fear of punitive action and a burdensome policy that requires a lot of work.
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Hospital reporting on adverse events is still lacking, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), released in March.
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CD4+ t cells were obtained from HIV-negative donors and HIV-positive patients receiving HAART with suppressed viremia. Using a single-cycle replication system and an X4 pseudovirus used to infect cells, minocycline, at concentrations from 0-50 ug/mL, demonstrated a dose-dependent reduction in the percentage of infected cells.
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Twenty-one patients with HIV-1/AIDS, seven patients with hiv-2/aids, 43 patients with HIV-1 chronic infection, and 66 patients with HIV-2 chronic infection in Guinea-Bissau were studied along with 66 HIV-negative policemen.