patient safety Articles
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Better patient safety
Customer: GE Healthcare Challenge: Increasing patient safety in surgery and intensive care through more accurate monitoring. Solution: Development of measurement parameters for the adequacy of anesthesia and analgesia. Key benefits: More precise monitoring of the level of anesthesia and analgesia. Preventing excess medication which can damage the patient's vital functions. Cost-efficiency ...
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Why auditing catheter dislodgement is a patient safety must
Chris Cheney at HealthLeaders Media released an article related to IV Catheter Dislodgement, the potential impact, and the need to audit these types of occurrences. The article focuses on Nancy Moureau’s work in understanding the impact of IV dislodgement, and ultimately a call to action: Records should be tracked with IV dislodgement reports as a mandatory effort, to continue to quantify ...
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A comparative study of prescribing and transcribing between the women hospital pharmacy and the ASHP: a benchmark approach
The aim of this case study is to compare the performance of the Pharmacy Department in the Women Hospital of the Hamad Hospital Corporation (HMC) of Qatar, with that of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) national survey in terms of prescribing and transcribing of drugs that was conducted in 2001. The methods used in this case study include observation, secondary data ...
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Healthcare Packaging Validation: Assuring Patient Safety
Sterile medical packaging plays a vital role in protecting patients from harmful bacteria and viruses. However, many processes can damage the integrity of sterile packaging as products move through the supply chain. Improper sterilization techniques, mishandling during shipping, and other mishaps can degrade packaging and cause loss of sterility. Regulatory agencies require all sterile packaging ...
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The Need for an Expanded Role of Risk Management in Healthcare
The role of risk management in healthcare has come a long way over the years. But as risks to the healthcare industry multiply—both in number and costs—risk management and risk managers need to be at the forefront of the business. If not, healthcare organizations can’t thrive, or potentially even survive. How healthcare risk management has evolved Today’s ...
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How eCOA Improves Patient Experience and Data Quality
With the rising demand for improving patient safety in clinical trials, the adoption of patient-centric solutions is considered the best route to enhance data accuracy and experience automated workflows. This is where eCOA comes into play. In this blog post, we will find out how electronic clinical outcome assessments are helping the clinical trials industry handle the ever-growing list of ...
By Clinion
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Micromate™ Now Available to Use With CT Guidance Thanks To Planning And Navigation Station
Interventional Systems announced the newest addition to Micromate™’s product suite: a planning and navigation station that will make the needle-based intervention miniature robot available for use with CT scanners. The new addition to Micromate™ makes it possible for physicians to rely on pre- and intraoperative scans to plan the intervention. These planning capabilities can ...
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Why Healthcare Needs to Think Provider Quality Management and Not Just Peer Review
When an adverse event occurs, the immediate priority is to deal with the situation at hand. Move beyond those immediate and reactive issues and the improvement-minded naturally begin to think about causal and contributory factors and their related corrective actions. These typically fall into two key areas: human and system factors. Human Factors Driven by regulatory and accreditation ...
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On a Mission to ZERO False-Positive Blood Cultures
Improve sepsis testing accuracy. Enhance patient safety. These are the driving forces behind Magnolia Medical Technology’s Mission to ZERO. Mission to ZERO™ is a nationwide plan to create greater awareness of patient safety and antibiotic-associated risks caused by false-positive diagnostic test results for sepsis. The goal is to initiate change by improving national blood culture ...
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Getting CPOE Adoption Right
Chris Snyder, a speaker at the marcus evans National Healthcare CMO/CMIO Summit 2013, on effective CPOE adoption. Interview with: Chris Snyder, Chief Medical Information Officer, Peninsula Regional Medical Center The adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) technologies has been slow in the US, although 2014 is the proposed start date for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use Requirements. ...
By Marcus Evans
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How to reduce diagnostic errors through patient engagement
As patients, we like to think diagnostic errors are rare, but the reality is they are fairly common. According to a recent Medscape poll, one in six physicians reported making diagnostic errors daily. Aside from the ongoing risk to patient health and safety, diagnostic errors also pose a considerable financial threat, with one study suggesting they cost the U.S. economy $750 billion each ...
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6 Tips for Avoiding Pressure Ulcers in Healthcare Facilities
A silent but serious condition is impacting healthcare facilities around the world, taking a serious toll not only on patient safety but hospital revenue and operating costs, too. Although it’s not contagious, this condition afflicts 2.5 million patients each year, resulting in 60,000 deaths annually in the United States alone1. On top of that, it costs the U.S. health system an estimated ...
By EarlySense
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Riskonnect Speeds Healthcare and Health and Safety Governance with Major Platform Updates
Riskonnect, the leading integrated risk management software solution provider, today announces the latest version of its platform Riskonnect 2019.2. The release delivers new, robust features for the healthcare and health and safety markets, including support for non-clinical rounding, long-term care event reporting and safety audits. The enhancements are designed to help risk professionals in ...
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How to Manage Concept to Production for Medical Optics
The global market for medical optical devices is continuing its steady growth and now accounts for an increasingly large proportion of the worldwide $593 billion photonics market. Optical assemblies are widely used in many areas of medical devices for all stages of diagnosis and treatment and are the key to offering more precise surgery, more accurate diagnostics and minimally invasive ...
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Medical Latex Examination Gloves
Medical Latex Examination Gloves protect you and your team from the biohazards and chemicals found in a variety of healthcare facilities and workplaces. Gloves also maintain hygiene and sanitation in the healthcare or food workplace, promoting the safety of patients, workers and visitors.Medical Latex Examination Gloves Features Selected high quality natural latex as raw material, strong and ...
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Anti-HIV and anti-inflammatory action of iodine-lithium-α-dextrin is accompanied by the improved quality of life in AIDS patients
Clinical efficacy, tolerability and safety of various doses of Iodine-Lithium-α-Dextrin (ILαD) monotherapy have been evaluated in 56 HIV-infected patients enrolled in double blind uncontrolled randomised study during 48 weeks follow-up period. ILαD was administered intravenously three times over five days with intervals of 23 weeks between treatments for a total of 12 infusions in 4 cycles. HIV-1 ...
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Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors
Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors The safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors are paramount in healthcare facilities, and the deployment of walk-through metal detector has emerged as a pivotal strategy in safeguarding these environments. Walk-through metal detectors play a critical role in proactive threat detection, enhancing security ...
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Keeping Productivity Up Throughout a Health Facility’s Transition
Steve Carter of The Carter Group, a solution provider at the marcus evans National Healthcare CXO Summit Spring 2013, on healthcare facility transition planning. Interview with: Steve Carter, President, The Carter Group ObamaCare will be bringing 30 million participants into the healthcare system, and organizations are faced with the challenge of capturing, retaining and growing their ...
By Marcus Evans
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Healthcare in Crisis: Workplace Safety at Hospitals
Not long ago, I spent an extended time in the hospital with my father. As I stayed by his side, I was surprised to see how many potential workplace hazards and possible near-miss injuries hospital employees faced. The staff was looking out for my father’s safety, but I wondered if they were thinking about their own safety as well. We count on physicians, nurses and healthcare assistants to ...
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Nanjing Southern New Town Medical Center - Case Study
Opened in December 2018. As an important livelihood project, the Southern New Town Medical Center in the central area of the Southern New Town of Nanjing. 2.9 billion RMB has been invested to build the hospital. Large-scale comprehensive hospital, which integrates medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, rehabilitation, health care and first aid, and can accommodate 1500 beds. ...
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