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When health care professionals work with interpreters to educate non-English-speaking patients, it is a team effort.
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What is an Asthma Action Plan? It is an individualized, written plan for asthma care developed by the health care provider that includes the following.
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A Florida hospice has created an education program that helps it handle its rapid growth while improving patient and family satisfaction.
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With the security standard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) formally effective as of April 21, 2005, its incumbent on quality professionals to be familiar with its requirements concerning electronic communications in particular, e-mail which are used so ubiquitously as part of normal business practice.
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Often, hospitals will be recognized for specific initiatives that have achieved outstanding results.
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It seems only yesterday that new systems were unveiled and approved for the bar coding of medications, but today a number of facilities not only have instituted such systems but have track records substantial enough for them to judge their impact.
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Although computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is expected to significantly reduce medication errors, systems must be implemented thoughtfully to avoid facilitating certain types of errors, according to a study published in the March 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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his article begins a series of periodic glimpses into the start and the progress of a quality initiative. We will follow the professionals at Childrens Medical Center Dallas as they implement a new appreciative inquiry (AI) initiative. This first article describes the planning process.
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Most hospital leaders have serious reservations about mandatory error reporting systems, according to a survey of hospital executives in six states.
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