Category: Quality

The ‘4 Fs’ of medical mask selection

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Kent Hospital to invest $1.7M in training after 4 patient errors in 6 months

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How a Sentara Healthcare hospital is scrapping patient restraints to improve care

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Ohio confirms 79 hepatitis A cases as outbreak spreads

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CDC: 144 cases linked to Cyclospora outbreak involving Del Monte vegetables

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Nurses ‘overlooked and underutilized’ in antibiotic stewardship initiatives

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Phage treatment: The new weapon in antibiotic-resistant infections?

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FDA Safety Communication: recommendations to reduce surgical fires and related patient injury.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

MedWatch Safety Alert. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration. May 29, 2018.

The Science of Teamwork.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

McDaniel SH, Salas E, eds. Am Psychol. 2018;73:305-600.

Identification and characterization of failures in infectious agent transmission precaution practices in hospitals: a qualitative study.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Krein SL, Mayer J, Harrod M, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jun 11; [Epub ahead of print].