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| Wednesday February 1, 2012 |
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Best Practices in Patient Safety Still Have Room for Improvement
By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
More than a decade since the Institute of Medicine called attention to the problem of patient safety, with its To Err is Human report indicating as many as 98,000 lives were lost annually as a result of medical errors in hospitals, the institute's latest paper reports improvements have moved at a glacial pace.
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AHRQ: Most Healthcare Dollars Still Spent on Small Part of Population
By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
Only 1 percent of the population accounted for 21.8 percent of total U.S. healthcare spending of $1.26 trillion in 2009, racking up an annual mean expenditure of $90,061, while the lower 50 percent of the population accounted for only 2.9 percent of expenditures, according to a new Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report.
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Safety & Savings: The Value of More Staff Time with Patients
By Marcia Faller, Ph.D., RN, chief clinical officer, AMN Healthcare
We've all heard the expression that "Time is money." This rings true in industry and in healthcare in regards to the importance of overall efficiency. But a clinician's time with patients can mean more than that--it can literally mean the difference between life and death, or between a good outcome and a bad one.
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