Articles Tagged With: NHSN
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ED interventions can save lives and dollars
The most commonly documented interventions made by pharmacists caring for emergency department patients included provision of drug information, dosage adjustment recommendations, responses to questions from nursing staff, formulary interchanges, and suggestions on initiating drug therapy, researchers found. -
Costly errors are common in same-day surgery arena
Mistakes involving patient classification and preauthorization of procedures are among a lengthy list of common errors made in the same-day surgery arena. -
Check-in kiosks keep expansion 'FTE neutral'
The biggest challenge regarding the implementation of registration kiosks at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) in Macon was "just trying to arrive at the place where our organization was ready to present self-service."