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As part of its Standards Improvement Initiative, The Joint Commission has moved the National Patient Safety Goal on abbreviations into the information management standard IM.02.02.01, element of performance 2.
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An adverse event in the ED at University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas might have drawn negative media coverage and state and federal investigations, but it also led to process changes that the ED managers say have made a world of difference in patient satisfaction and quality.
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Color is everywhere in our world. Think of all the colors we use for navigating traffic and the unrest it would cause if those signs were taken away. But experts say beware of color in health care; they can cause indelible harm, even death.
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What distinguishes high-performing multi-hospital health systems from the rest? With support from The Commonwealth Fund, that's what the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) set out to uncover in a yearlong research project.
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The nation's first senior emergency center, opened by Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, is specifically tailored to meet the needs of a growing population of adults and provides care that goes beyond the typical emergency department assessment and treatment.
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Recognizing that ED wait times and throughput are affected by the entire hospital, the leaders at King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, KY, engaged all the departments that interface with the ED and slashed the rate at which ED patients leave before treatment from 5% to 0.5%.
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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has become a growing problem in HIV/AIDS patients, clinicians and researchers report.
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The final version of the federal HIV/AIDS program budget for fiscal year 2010 is about as close to what AIDS advocates have wanted as they've seen in nearly a decade.
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In the United States, women and teen girls accounted for more than one-fourth of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2007 and more than 93,900 cumulative deaths from AIDS. Black women are at heightened risk. The incidence rate of new diagnoses in black women is almost 15 times higher than that of white women, according to statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
