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Winners of quality and safety awards often have much in common, but there is something about Eastern Maine Healthcare System in Brewer, recent recipient of The VHA Foundation and National Business Group on Health's Patient Safety Leadership Award, that sets it apart: the way it measures success.
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There was mostly good news for quality professionals in The Joint Commission's latest annual report on quality and patient safety.
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Recognizing and re-emphasizing the fact that children are a distinct population of patients in the ED, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) have released a joint policy statement that includes guidelines for the care of children in emergency departments.
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When Spartanburg (SC) Regional Medical Center began a process to improve its discharge planning process, it began with improving collaboration from both within the hospital and within the larger medical community.
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Shortly after the Joint Commission included anticoagulation therapy on its National Patient Safety Goals two years ago, Winter Haven Hospital's pharmacy services began a major project to improve its own handling of anticoagulation.
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Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, FL, developed several protocols involving the pharmacy's involvement with anticoagulation therapy, including protocols specific to enoxaparin and heparin.
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Hospital pharmacists need to think like research investigators before recommending medication changes to hospital formularies or prescribing best practices. Each answer to a clinical question should be based on the strongest possible evidence, an expert says.
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Before hospital pharmacists make medication change recommendations to their hospitals' pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees, they need to do a thorough evaluation of the literature.
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Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, FL, targeted deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis as a goal, targeting this project to prevent readmissions related to DVT.
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