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Patients Threatened by Gaps in Care When They Change Settings
Patient safety and quality of care are threatened when patients move from one setting to another, but there are strategies that can address those gaps in care.
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Site Infections Reduced for Post-op Cesarean Section Patients
Infection levels in mothers after cesarean sections were reduced at a California hospital with a remarkably simple fix: providing the right size bandage so too-large ones didn’t have to be cut by hand.
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Hospital Standardizes Debriefing After Critical Events
The maternal and fetal medicine team at Sharp Grossmont Women’s Health Center, affiliated with Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, CA, improved quality of care recently by implementing a standardized debriefing process for critical events.
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Obstetrics Offers Many Opportunities for Quality Improvement
Maternal and fetal morbidity are ongoing concerns, and hospitals are using an array of evidence-based strategies to improve quality of care, from simple process changes to high-tech virtual reality simulations of obstetric emergencies.
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Evidence That Working ‘Bare Below the Elbows’ Protects Patients
A study using two mannequins and a surrogate DNA marker for Clostridium difficile showed that workers in long sleeves were more likely to contaminate a subsequent patient than workers wearing short sleeves.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Requires Hospitalwide Commitment
Hospitals can play an important role in addressing one of the most urgent public health problems today: the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. An effective antibiotic stewardship program requires significant commitment from top executive levels down to the bedside.
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Community Finds Unique Ways to Bring Case Management to the Frontier
A care coordination program that uses care facilitators has helped to improve care coordination and reduce ED use among a frontier, or very rural, population.
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Strategies for Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment
Healthcare organization leaders can do a great deal to prevent sexual harassment — or, at least, to stop it as soon as it occurs. Sexual harassment prevention starts with an organization’s leadership paying attention and emphasizing the importance of workplace safety.
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Nurses, Other HCWs Report High Levels of Sexual Harassment
For the past year, sexual harassment has made headlines, sometimes daily, as celebrities and politicians deal with accusations. Research shows that nurses and other healthcare workers also experience sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying on the job.
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NIOSH Issues PPE Conformity Assessment Document
Employee health professionals questioning whether their supplies of personal protective equipment are up to date with current performance standards may want to consult new guidelines issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.