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Many hospitals have their newborn unit staff wear a distinctive scrubs color or other uniform so that it is easier to recognize that they are authorized to handle the infants, ...
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A Texas hospital was recently involved in an infant abduction case that shows some strengths of the typical measures employed on many newborn units, but it also demonstrates the weaknesses that can make babies vulnerable if staff are not vigilant.
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News: Upon the premature birth of a baby, a doctor recommended a dose of aminophylline to treat the brief pauses in the infant's breathing.
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More than three-fifths of Americans surveyed by the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) support passage of comprehensive medical liability reform legislation.
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, MA, announced recently that U.S. hospitals taking part in an 18-month effort to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths by dramatically improving patient care have exceeded that goal.
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The following advice for conducting critical birth drills comes from Stanley Davis, MD, an OB-GYN specialist at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis.
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You probably conduct fire drills, evacuation drills, infant abduction drills, and mass casualty drills, but there is one more you might want to add to the schedule: critical birth drills.
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When Our Lady of Lourdes in Pasco, WA, brought in outside engineers to give them a fresh perspective on reducing falls, the team came up with several solutions.
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Partnering with patients and family members can provide dramatic new insight into patient safety issues and directly reduce medical errors, according to the experience of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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The recent settlement of the Scruggs charity care lawsuit by a prominent West Coast health system means that more are probably on the way.