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Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center of Mishawaka, IN, has an adverse drug event (ADE) alert system that has resulted in decreased severity-adjusted mortality rates, length of stay (LOS), and drug costs since it was implemented more than five years ago.
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Making major technological changes in hospitals is both expensive and very labor-intensive. Hospitals should plan for pilot tests of the new equipment, educating and marketing the change to staff, and receiving feedback that will result in process changes.
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Barcode technology combined with a barcode electronic medication-administration system (eMAR) can reduce potential adverse events related to medication errors by more than 50%, according to a new study funded by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of Rockville, MD.
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For hospital pharmacies that are considering advocating for a new position dealing with medication safety, the first question might be: What does a medication safety officer do?
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Rural and smaller hospitals struggle with covering all pharmacy staffing needs around the clock, often paying for contract pharmacy services to fill in on weekends and night shifts.
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The big challenge for Women and Children's Hospital-Kaleida Health of Buffalo, NY, was using new IV medication delivery technology for patients that ranged from premature infants to geriatric adults.
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In the past 10 years, there have been about 100 settlements of self-referral and kickback between the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services and health care facilities. Twenty of these cases occurred in the past two years.
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[Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series on a new guideline from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) regarding the management of providers who are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In last month's issue, we gave you an overview of the guideline, which procedures are at greatest risk of transmission, and the recommendations for infected staff. In this issue, we further explain the new guidelines and discuss how to decide which workers to test.]
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A woman came in for breast implants and went under anesthesia. The silicone implants she had selected were not available; only saline ones were there.
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