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New patient safety goals for 2005 by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations include preventing patient falls and avoiding potentially fatal mix-ups with similarly named drugs.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are working together in completely aligning current and future common hospital quality measures in their condition-specific performance measure sets.
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How do you make the most of your job and your career after a long tenure in the nursing profession?
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Contamination of some lots of this seasons influenza vaccine has led to a delay in distribution of about half the nations supply.
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Do you feel overwhelmed by the annual fit-testing rule? Youre in good company. Most of your peers at hospitals around the country rank the difficulty with compliance as a 7 out of 10 or worse, according to a survey by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta.
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A multifaceted patient safety program that included a focus on infection control has garnered a Pittsburgh hospital a 2004 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award.
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An award-winning patient safety program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in McKeesport, PA, includes a focus on preventing troublesome Clostridium difficile infections.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations wants you to use ergonomic interventions.
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The need for less expensive and more efficient clinical trials has increased in recent years with drug discovery occurring at an explosive rate, and yet the clinical trials process has changed very little over the past decade, an information technologies expert says.