Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety During Surgical Crises
When doctors, nurses and other hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an...
View ArticleIntensive Care Units for Newborns in Nine States See Sharp Drop in...
Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in newborns were reduced by 58 percent in less than a year in hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) participating in an Agency for...
View ArticleNew Children's Electronic Health Record Format Announced
The benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) may become more widely available to children through an EHR format for children's health care announced today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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