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Medication errors associated with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps most often are caused by inadequate patient and staff education, misuse by well-intentioned family members, and improper patient selection, according to results of a recent survey by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Hunting-don Valley, PA.
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Most of the 62 same-day surgery programs that participated in the 2002 and 2003 Cataract Extraction with Lens Implantation Study experienced a decrease of five minutes or more in at least one aspect of procedure time.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has released a list of the most common sentinel events since 1995 in ambulatory centers and hospitals.
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Do you want to improve both core measure results and the consistency of patient care at your hospital? Your No. 1 goal should be to find ways to make it easier for caregivers to make the correct choices, says Steve Osborn, CPHQ, vice president of clinical quality and patient safety at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, PA.
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During the 1980s, U.S. manufacturers began to study why the quality of Japanese products was much better than for those made in the United States.
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African-American women with endometrial cancer are significantly less likely to undergo primary surgery and have significantly shorter survival than white women with endometrial cancer.
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In the current report, a disconcerting finding of a strikingly increased incidence of thrombosis in women with uterine cervical or vaginal carcinomas in whom erythropoietin was used to maintain hemoglobin levels at 12 g/dL was presented.
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When analyzed using 3-dimensional methods, virtual colonoscopy achieves comparable accuracy in screening asymptomatic adults for colonic polyps as optical colonoscopy.
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This second of a two-part article looking at the challenges faced by home health managers describes demonstration projects included in HR 1 that affect the home health industry.
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In teaching health care providers how to care for patients at the end of life, many institutions forget to teach the providers that they need to care for themselves as well.
