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To improve health literacy the use of trained interpreters must be common practice when health care practitioners are communicating with patients who are not proficient in English.
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There are many basic practices that improve teaching encounters between health care practitioners and patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).
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Both nurses and physicians are at high risk for communication lapses during change of shift, says Francis L. Counselman, MD, chairman and program director for the department of emergency medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
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The agents available for use in pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) have expanded considerably over the last 20 years.
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One of the most challenging issues for quality managers is demonstrating that best QI practices can actually improve outcomes. Demonstrating such success requires a good deal of time and resources. In light of this challenge, the results of a new study published in JAMA should be good news, indeed.
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AHRQ: Good news, bad news on gender discrepancies:; Phone-based therapy eases depression
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If the reaction to the options paper released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on value-based purchasing does anything, it points out clearly just how difficult if not impossible it will be to create a plan that makes everyone happy. The good news is there is still a lot of talking and responding to be done before the final plan is in place.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a new phase of its Value-Driven Health Care Initiative, an undertaking with several components all designed to support QI through public reporting of cost and quality data.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has published nine strategies aimed at assisting member states in the redesign care process to prevent human errors in patient care. The strategies, developed by WHO's Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions, include:
