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Frustrated with The Joint Commission, Midland Memorial Hospital (TX) made the shift to DNV this year, says accreditation specialist Lisa Williams, PT, MS, HACP.
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So how do you evaluate the quality of your contracted services? Frank Ruelas, MBA, principal of www.hipaabootcamp.com and director of compliance and risk management at Maryvale Hospital in Phoenix, has some tips.
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Checklists have become a ubiquitous term for the patient safety movement, which most recognize as being born with the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report "To Err is Human."
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The ebbing H1N1 influenza pandemic could leave one lasting legacy for future patients: they will be a lot less likely to die of nosocomial flu transmitted by a health care worker.
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In this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial from the Netherlands, 6,771 patients were screened on admission to the hospital for the presence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization using real-time PCR.
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