As International Infection Prevention Week wraps up, we want to thank infection preventionists for all the hard work they do every day. And thanks to BioVigil and Inovalon for sponsoring the week’s activities. In Friday’s issue of Patient Safety & Quality Insider, we’re recapping the conte...
C. Denk and his staff from the NJDHSS focusing on c-sections and inductions of labor prior to week 39, looking at possibleexplanations. In general, he found that both primary and repeat cesareans in most categories increased at similar rates; cesareans without a trial of labor showed the ...
During the third week in October, National Healthcare Quality Week recognizes the professional who strives for a safe, quality patient experience throughout the industry.
EP: 15.Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) in Chronic GVHD EP: 16.Practical Advice for Management of Chronic GVHDThis is a video synopsis of a discussion involving Dr Yi-Bin Chen, Director of the Transplant and Cell Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor...
ObjectivesTo systematically review the literature on quality indicators (QIs) for evaluating trauma care, identify QIs, map their definitions, and examine
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Nevertheless, 25.8% of the patients worked more than 15 hours per week and 3.1% fewer than 15 hours. No employment was reported by 69.2% of patients; the main reason for unemployment was age and disability related retirement. Disease-related data Patients experienced their first MG symptoms at...
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic neuromuscular disease. Advances in medical therapy have continuously increased the life expectancy of MG patients, without definitively curing the disease. To analyze life circumstances and quality of life (QoL), a lar
To remove redundant handwriting, a specimen labeling packet was innovated that incorporated custom designed carbonless piggy-back labels to document the multiple copies by writing specimen and patient information only once on each lab requisition. Lab requisitions were revised to accept these first-time ...
(where 58%, and 40%-47% of centers reported review of cases, respectively); (3) 60% reported that the duration of chart rounds was < 2 hours per week (range, 1–6); (4) the median time spent per patient was 2.7 minutes (range, 0.6-12 minutes); and (5) minor and major ...