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Western Baptist Hospital: Problem-Solving With Pneumonia Care Performance Improvement Teams [PDF]
, 2010 Describes successful strategies for strengthening pneumonia care, including multidisciplinary performance improvement teams, process improvements built into staff routines, peer collaboratives, standard order sets, and feedback through concurrent ...
Aimee Lashbrook
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Improving physician–patient communication [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter looks at improving physician–patient ...
Downey, Katherine +2 more
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St. Luke's Medical Center: Bottom-Up Approach to Quality Improvement in Pneumonia Care [PDF]
, 2009 Highlights strategies for improving pneumonia care, including frontline staff leadership, reassigning responsibilities, ongoing nursing staff education, and the use of evidence-based best practices, concurrent review, and streamlined standing order ...
Aimee Lashbrook
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Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Older Adults: Training Outcomes Among Physicians and Other Healthcare Practitioners in Community-Based Settings [PDF]
, 2015 Screening and brief intervention (SBI) is increasingly available to older adults who engage in at-risk drinking. This study examined the extent to which SBI training influenced the willingness of healthcare providers in a community-based hospital and ...
Coogle, Constance L, Owens, Myra G
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A global census of physician assistants and physician associates
JAAPA, 2020 ABSTRACT The physician assistant or physician associate (PA) profession is being adopted in many countries. At a time of improved communication and international exchange of educational methods, no central repository of PA numbers exists. The authors set out to consolidate basic information on PAs.
Roderick S, Hooker, Oren, Berkowitz
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Oklahoma Heart Hospital: Clinician Leaders Establish Culture of Quality [PDF]
, 2009 Describes strategies for a culture of quality, including a flat organizational structure, optimal nurse experience and ratios, standardization through care sets, technology-enabled feedback and assessment, and continuous improvement through new ...
Sharon Silow-Carroll
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Foot & Ankle Surgery: Techniques, Reports & CasesThe use of intramedullary devices to treat osteomyelitis has been documented as being effective and safe. Technology has limited the use of this technique to long bones with application on an intramedullary nail or rod. In this paper, we describe a novel
Thomas Poynter, DPM +6 more
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Norman Regional Health System: A City-Owned Public Trust Dedicated to Improving Performance [PDF]
, 2010 Describes successful strategies for providing recommended treatment on process-of-care measures, including board and administration support, order sets, concurrent review, performance feedback, transparency, and engaging nurses.
Sharon Silow-Carroll
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Does Presenting Patients’ BMI Increase Documentation of Obesity? [PDF]
, 2002 Purpose: Despite the associated health consequences, obesity is infrequently documented as a problem in medical charts. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a simple intervention (routine listing of the BMI on the medical chart) will ...
Clothier MD, Norm +2 more
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Advances in SimulationBackground A large portion of preventable deaths is a result of uncontrolled bleeding due to a delay in medical intervention. While publicly accessible tourniquets raise the concern of incorrect application by laypeople, tourniquets have proven efficacy ...
Steven Bordonaro +4 more
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