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Patient Safety Alert Supplement

October 1, 2004

Click here for the October 2004 Patient Safety Alert supplement.

Issue Date: October 1, 2004

Simple strategies can help reduce falls and liability in your facility
What to do if you witness a fall
Top 10 strategies for reducing slips and falls
If you want to reduce falls, you’ve got to plan
Self-assessments can be used against you
Hospital ad supports doc in malpractice case
Children more at risk from adverse events
Long hours, nursing fatigue put patients at risk
Stolen info results in first HIPAA-related conviction
Reader question: Carefully document patient requested ED transfers
Legal Review & Commentary - Failure to properly treat a puncture wound results in leg amputation, brain damage: $7.1M settlement
Audio conference: Including children in clinical research

Financial Disclosure: None of the authors or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

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