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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Healthcare Safety"”.
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Safety in Hospital Medication Administration Applying STAMP Processes
… significant hospital medication administration safety improvements. The healthcare industry has begun to draw on scientific approaches to safety from outside traditional medical fields, including human factors engineering and systems design. This thesis lays the foundation to advance quality …
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Public Reporting Of Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Impact Of Public Policy On Healthcare Organizations And Patient Outcomes
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in U.S. hospitals. Policy makers have responded with a variety of state and federal policies to reduce infections by increasing the visibility and accountability of hospital performance. One policy …
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Community's Safety Net: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Nonprofit Hospitals in Barrow and Clayton Counties in Providing Services to its Medicaid Population
Nonprofit hospitals serve as part of the healthcare safety net to deliver a significant level of care to low-income, uninsured, underinsured, Medicaid and other vulnerable groups in society. Safety net hospitals are defined as those hospitals where at least 10 percent of the costs of care provided …
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Hospital Infection Control Practice: Preventing, Identifying, and Measuring Healthcare-Associated Infections in an Ever-Changing Environment
<p>Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in U.S. hospitals. HAI prevention is receiving increased attention on account of recent legislative mandates related to public reporting of hospital infection rates and limitations in hospital …
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Policy and practice of urban neighbourhood renewal and regeneration : what can China learn from British experiences?
… the areas of housing, employment, education, healthcare, safety and others. This means that the British regeneration strategies and approaches could be more valuable to Chinese policy-makers and practitioners. In China, neighbourhood renewal projects always bear the influence from the West, …
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Examining the effects of the Medicaid expansion on: Social welfare, healthcare utilization, and uncompensated care
… states. I found a 1.1 percent increase in healthcare access in expansion states. The Third paper explorers the Medicaid expansion’s effect on uncompensated care and Medicaid DSH payment. Safety net hospitals are the last line of opportunity for the poor, uninsured, elderly, and disabled …
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Macroergonomics to Understand Factors Impacting Patient Care During Electronic Health Record Downtime
… these computer support systems have provided healthcare operations with new safety nets, and efficiency increases, but also introduce new problems when they suddenly go offline. These downtime events are chaotic and dangerous for patients. With the safety systems clinicians have become …
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The acquisition of clostridium difficile-associated disease: the role of nutritional care
… Staphylococcus aureus as the most common healthcare pathogen, and is currently the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and gastroenteritis-related deaths in the United States. Advances in research, national campaigns for healthcare safety, mandated disease reporting, …