Colorado 100k Lives Campaign [PDF]
, 2007 Summarizes a statewide effort to help Colorado hospitals strengthen their quality improvement systems. Includes an overview of the six interventions proven to ensure safe patient care, as well as lessons learned and success ...
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Protocol for studying cough frequency in people with pulmonary tuberculosis. [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Cough is a key symptom of tuberculosis (TB) as well as the main cause of transmission. However, a recent literature review found that cough frequency (number of coughs per hour) in patients with TB has only been studied once, in 1969.
Bravard, MA +17 more
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The experience of community first responders in co-producing rural health care : in the liminal gap between citizen and professional [PDF]
, 2014 Non peer reviewedPublisher ...
Farmer, Jane +3 more
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Critical incidents as perceived by rapid response teams in emergency services
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2020 Objective: To analyze two hospital emergency services, one in a public institution and another in a philanthropic one, from the perspective of rapid response team professionals in the face of positive and negative critical incidents.
Alexsandro de Oliveira Dias +5 more
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Improving Emergency Response in the Outpatient Clinic Setting [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Effective triage, assessment, and activation of necessary systems in emergent situations of clinical instability is vital in reducing morbidity and mortality of patients in any clinical setting.
Horton, Matte
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US deploys rapid response teams to hospitals with Ebola cases [PDF]
BMJ, 2014 The US government will deploy rapid response teams to local hospitals to help them handle any new Ebola cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday 14 October. Tom Frieden, CDC director, said, “For any hospital anywhere in the country that has a confirmed case of Ebola, we will put a team on the ground within hours
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BMC Anesthesiology, 2017 Background Previous studies have reported that the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is closely associated with patient outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare patient CPR outcomes across resident, emergency medicine, and rapid ...
Tak Kyu Oh +4 more
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Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa: Lessons learned and issues arising from West African countries [PDF]
, 2015 © Royal College of Physicians 2015. All rights reserved.The current Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak ravaging three nations in West Africa has affected more than 14,000 persons and killed over 5,000.
Akpalu, AK +6 more
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Advance care planning documentation strategies; goals-of-care as an alternative to not-for-resuscitation in medical and oncology patients. A pre-post controlled study on quantifiable outcomes [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Health services in Tasmania, Victoria and now Western Australia are changing to goals-of-care (GOC) advance care planning (ACP) documentation strategies.
Angus, Louise +7 more
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Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2023 Aim The rapid response system (RRS) was initially aimed to improve patient outcomes. Recently, some studies have implicated that RRS might facilitate do‐not‐attempt‐resuscitation (DNAR) orders among patients, their families, and healthcare providers ...
Tatsuya Tsuji +10 more
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