2005-2004 Issues

November / December 2005

• Culture Improves Safety Reducing Adverse Drug Events

• One Couple: Same Name, Same DAte, Same Surgery

• Patient Safety Officers Roles and Responsibilities

• New Roles Improve Bed Utilization

• How Safe do Patients Feel?

• What If We Just Said, "I'm Sorry?"

September / October 2005

• Financial Incentives

• Patient Safety in England and Wales

• SPECIAL SECTION: Barcoding /RFID

- Barcoding to Enhance Patient Safety

- Automatic Identification

- Intelligent Location

- Labeling and Tracking Preventing Errors in the Lab

- DIRECTORY: Barcoding / RFID

July / August 2005

• Aiming for Zero Errors: Clarian's Safe Passage Program Improves Infusion Safety

• Medication Safety: Averting Highest-Risk Errors Is First Priority
Part II: Nursing Satisfaction, Wireless Networking, "Smart" Pain Management, Best Practice Improvements, and ROI

• Delivering the Promise to Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care Using Aviation CRM

• Keeping Patients Safe and Promoting Quality Outcomes: Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Care Management

• Faster Time to PTCA: Improving Safety, Communication, and Satisfaction

May / June 2005

• Medication Safety: Averting Highest-Risk Errors is First Priority - Part I: Risk of Harm, Speed to Impact, Smart Infusion, and CQI

• Getting to the Recall on Time: Improve Safety with Automated Recall Management

• Advancing Patient Safety in Laparoscopy: The Active Electrode Monitoring System

• Case Study: Improving Medication Safety with a Wireless, Mobile Barcode System
in a Community Hospital

• Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University

- Using the Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Excellence

- Baldrige as a Quality Platform

March / April 2005

• Advancing Medical Education and Patient Safety through Simulation Learning

• The Patient in Patient Safety

• MEDDIC-MS: Wisconsin's Quality Performance Measure System for Medicaid Managed Care

• Stop the Noise: Reduce Errors by Creating a Quieter Hospital Environment

• Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University

- Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines and Reporting Results Through a Quality Metric

- Evidence-Based Medicine and Long-Term Care

January / February 2005

• PACS and Patient Safety: How PACS Addresses Patient Safety Across the Hospital Enterprise

• CPOE at a Community Hospital: Beyond the Hospital Walls

• Patient Safety Simulations: Driver of Cross-functional Collaboration

• Virtual Longitudinal Electronic Health Records: An Approach to Quality Improvement

• Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University

- Introduction

- Partnering with Suppliers to Improve Patient Safety

- Patient Safety in American Hospitals: The Consumer Has
a Right to Know

- One Piece of the Patient Safety Puzzle: Advantages of
the Six Sigma Approach

October / December 2004

• CPOE at a Community Hospital: Online Charting Goes Live

• Electronic Records, Patient Confidentiality, and the Impact of HIPAA

• Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium at Harvard University

- Introduction

- Patient Safety: Ethical Considerations in Policy Development

- How Online Patient Networks Can Enhance Quality
   and Reduce Errors

- P4P Contracting: Bold Leaps or Baby Steps?

July / September 2004

• CPOE at a Community Hospital: First Steps

• Reducing Surgical Site Infections Through Six Sigma
   and Change Management

• Web-Based Tools Aid Quality Improvement Projects

• Focus Study: Osteoporosis Screening and Treatment for the Elderly

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