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Failure and near-misses offer a significant opportunity to change the way you do something in a way that will benefit patients. But is there a best method of doing a root-cause analysis (RCA)? According to St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, yes.
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For some organizations, finding out where you fit in compared to other organizations is something they do regularly and well.
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It was nice to win a national award for case management last winter, says Pat Metzger, RN, MSA, system executive for care management at Memorial Hermann in Houston. But that wasn't the aim when the program started a decade before the Franklin Award landed on her desk.
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Uldrick et al performed a pilot study in which 14 HIV-infected patients with symptomatic MCD received high-dose AZT (600 mg PO Q6 hours) and VGC (900 mg PO Q12 hours).
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In this issue: Calcium supplements and MI; birth control pills and VTE; ACE inhibitors and breast cancer risk; spending on pharmaceuticals; and FDA actions.
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On Feb. 15, 2011, a 30-month-old U.S.-born child of Somali descent developed a skin rash 14 days after returning from a trip to Kenya and 1 day after visiting a child care center.
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Basically, people now feel nothing is safe to eat. They don't know what choices to make.
