Category: Quality

FDA identifies harm reported from sudden discontinuation of opioid pain medicines and requires label changes to guide prescribers on gradual, individualized tapering.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; April 9, 2019.

Minimizing Opioid Prescribing in Surgery (MOPiS) initiative: an analysis of implementation barriers.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Coughlin JM, Shallcross ML, Schäfer WLA, et al. J Surg Res. 2019;239:309-319.

The universal rule on how much time hospitals should spend on quality in board meetings

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E. coli outbreak jumps to 109 cases; ground beef could be source

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Costly, aggressive treatments often used on end-stage cancer patients

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Parents sue NYC over mandatory measles vaccinations

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15-second hand-washing, shorter, as effective as WHO-recommended protocol, study shows

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Nurse dies week after patient attack at Louisiana hospital

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2019 on track to be worst year for measles in 2 decades

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Create, build, communicate — How a regional communication network improves outcomes

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