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Blood culture contamination in the emergency department
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: Current best practice for collecting blood cultures is to divert the first 1-2ml of blood, so to send the micro-organisms away from the blood culture tubes that will be tested. Residing in the deeper dermis layer ...
Improving ScannED medications
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Barcode medication verification has been proven to be an effective safety measure to help prevent errors during medication administration. It is necessary to provide safe medication administration to ensure quality ...
Medication reconciliation completed by pharmacy on admission from the ED
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Medication reconciliation should be performed at all transitions of care according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and AHRQ Patient Safety Network. A recent systematic review on errors in medication ...
Discharge lounge and the journey to excellence in patient satisfaction
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Our Emergency Room (ER) patient satisfaction baseline scores related to discharge instructions for FY 2016 were at 43.31%. Our fiscal year goal, however, was to receive a score of 51% (75th percentile) with ...