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Hospital case managers are involved with patients from admission through the entire episode of care and discharge, which puts them in a position to spot patient safety issues and work on ways to prevent them, says John Banja, PhD, professor of rehabilitation medicine, medical ethicist at Emory University's Center for Ethics and director of the Section on Ethics in Research at Emory's Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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Researchers at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (PAVAHCS) and Stanford University School of Medicine have employed an eight-step process improvement intervention to significantly reduce the incidence of pneumonia in post-operative patients on the surgical ward.
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For years now the name Toyota has been synonymous with quality not only to the car-buying public, but to a growing number of health care professionals.
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Occasionally a physician investigator will be torn between the need to adhere to the clinical trial protocol and the desire to help a patient/subject obtain a better medical outcome. The question is: Is it ever right to follow that desire and vary from the protocol?
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Clinical trial payment agreements are improving for sites, but there are strategies that can make these even better, an expert says.
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One of the lessons Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, learned as the research site spent more than four years transitioning to an electronic process was that sometimes coordinators really do know best.
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[Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. This month we examine the performance improvements that one hospital achieved after placing a pharmacist in the ED. We also discuss how a pharmacist's recommendations to dispense a medication orally enabled the ED to save money and improve patient safety. In the August issue, we'll look at additional benefits these pharmacists offer, from the perspective of ED nurses and physicians.]
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As the ED staff at Valley Medical Center in Renton, WA, was preparing to move into its new "digs," emergency services manager Kayett Asuquo, RN, BSN, MBA, CES, recognized that it was important that they do more than just take a walking tour of the new facilities. They needed to see how it would function as an environment for treating patients.