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Quality experts have long bemoaned the fact that medical students are taught precious little about quality and patient safety, but that trend has been changing thanks to a program sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
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The latest iteration of the DHHS guidelines was released December 1, 2009.
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As the percentage of women impacted by HIV increases, researchers and clinicians need to learn more about how HIV-infected women differ in adherence and treatment than HIV-infected men.
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For community health care centers involved in the study of initiating rapid HIV screening, one of the key take-home messages is that this can be done efficiently with a little help from friends.
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With its last survey in December 2006, Faith Regional Health Services ended up in conditional status.
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When The Joint Commission revised its medical staff standard in 2007, there was tumult in the field.
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Beth A. Duthie, RN, PhD, director of patient safety at NYU Langone Medical Center, wasn't surprised by findings in the study "New nurses' views of quality improvement education" published in the Jan. 10 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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She watched the young nurse getting chastised for making an error and could see the fear in her face as her manager's voice rose in anger. The young nurse was put on indefinite leave. That's what happens when you make mistakes, she thought to herself.