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Patient Safety

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2005
Patient safety is a cause for concern among health care providers, payers, employers, policy makers, and the general public. But it is difficult for most case managers to get their arms around what they can do about patient safety in hospitals. This article discusses the patient safety movement in this country and defines the vital role case managers ...
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Patient safety

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2009
Congress is grappling with ways to fund health care in the future. Much of the focus rests on paying physicians for their patients' outcomes, rather than the current system of payment for services provided during each visit. The years ahead will be years of change for American health care, with an increasing emphasis on the comparison of patient ...
James S. Taylor   +10 more
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2010
Senior staff who want to improve patient safety in their organisations should highlight the 'patient voice' by ensuring that board meetings start with 'patient stories', according to Patient Safety First, a campaign for reducing avoidable harm for patients.
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Patient safety and patient error

The Lancet, 2007
1which reports that “patients make errors too”. Indeed, at fi rst glance it seems nonsensical to suggest otherwise, not least since the same observation has been made several times over the past half century. 2–4 Yet the contribution of patients (and their caregivers) to medical error has been discussed only rarely.
Buetow, S., Elwyn, G.
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2011
The National Patient Safety Agency has published online its 'How to' guide on venous thromboembolism risk assessment for all patients admitted to hospital. The guide builds on existing resources and can be used to support implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards Programme, Commissioning for ...
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