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Newsletter Archives

Past Issues

April 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Spotting and stopping mistakes before they can do harm
  • Five Questions with Allen Kachalia, MD, JD
  • Voices from the 2017 Patient Safety Forum
  • Breathing easier after resolving an intubation staffing issue
  • The impact of the Center's cataract surgery expert panel
  • Medical staff burnout
  • Is this new drug safe for your patient?

March 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Transforming medical culture one student at a time
  • All safety is personal
  • The surprisingly short journey from Potato Heads to patient safety
  • Five Questions with Eric Dickson, M.D.
  • Building safer care into patients’ phones
  • What should medical students know about patient safety?

February 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Beware online translation tools if patients speak limited English
  • Five Questions with Eric J. Hardt, M.D.
  • The Affordable Care Act and patient safety improvements
  • How a simple staff idea board lead to better patient safety
  • Patient discharge experience from acute care hospital visits
  • Don’t let rude behavior compromise your patients’ safety

January 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Hospital teaches caregivers to perfect safety steps at home
  • Five Questions with M. Denise Desrochers, BSN, RN, CPON
  • Fighting pressure ulcers in a high-risk population
  • How to stop central line-associated infections
  • New data on hand hygiene
  • Get patient identification right every time

Year-end issue, Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • How to boost your patients’ cancer screening rates to near 100 percent
  • Re-engineering health care for safety

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Featured stories

  • Cost of harm in MA hospitals pegged at $2.14 billion annually (May 2025)
  • Q&A with Bryan Sexton on "bite-sized" well-being interventions (Mar 2025)
  • Annual report focuses on investments in safety (Feb 2025)
  • New CMS rule incentivizes hospitals to attest to safety measures (Summer 2024)

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