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Currently, core measure data are used "in the context of a variety of processes here at The Joint Commission" including in public reporting and the priority focus process, says Jerob Loeb, PhD, The Joint Commission's vice president, division of quality measurement and research.
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In talking about understanding the reasons for errors in the effort to support higher reliability, Marty B. Scott, MD, MBA, VP, quality and patient safety at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, GA, points to James Reason's swiss cheese model, proposed in 1990.
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A recent study has found that men who have sex with men (MSM) will reduce their risk-taking behavior when they're given brief prevention education at their regular HIV clinic visits.
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Researchers have found that this simple three-to-five minute behavioral assessment screener with discussion prompts and a risk reduction plan for providers can help reduce risk behaviors among HIV patients.
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Despite the HIV epidemic's impact on poor, urban African Americans nationwide, there have been few prevention interventions targeting this population specifically.
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Perhaps the most surprising news in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) recent report linking poverty to a generalized HIV epidemic in urban communities across the United States was that race played far less of a role than many people would imagine. The biggest factor was poverty in an urban community.
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Metro TeenAIDS of Washington, DC, works to reduce HIV risk among youth in a city that is among the hardest hit areas of the country in terms of the HIV epidemic.
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The search for a female-controlled form of HIV prevention just took a giant step. Results of a Phase IIB trial of a tenofovir gel indicate that use of the gel before and after sex provided moderate protection against sexually transmitted HIV.
