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October 2016 Patient Safety Beat

October 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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'Healing After Harm'
Five questions with Linda K. Kenney
Training with mannequins is enhancing dialysis safety
How ER's are treating behavioral health patients safely
What's wrong with these photos?
October is health literacy month

September 2016 Patient Safety Beat

September 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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How a new Rx database is combating opioid scourge
Five Questions with James S. Gessner, MD
A fresh strategy to prevent patient falls
Keeping patients safe and healthy after they go home
A look at adverse events in rehabilitation hospitals

Summer 2016 Patient Safety Beat

Summer 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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Introducing the Patient Safety Navigator
Five Questions With Robert Truog, MD
Nearly 1,500 adverse events reported to the state last year
What do the adverse event report data tell us?
Atrius Health is helping providers resolve patient harm incidents

June 2016 Patient Safety Beat

June 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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An inspection, introspection, and lessons learned
Five questions with Susan Plass Lawson
Mount Auburn Medical Associates raises cancer screening rate
Making sense of medical error death reports
Putting patient advising into action at Boston Medical Center
Why 'deviance' becomes the new normal
Leadership commitment to antibiotic stewardship program

May 2016 Patient Safety Beat

May 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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Cataract surgery errors spur a new model for improving safety
Five Questions with Lucian L. Leape
The high cost of faulty communications
The loss of a fierce patient safety advocate
Re-engineering health care for safety
Safety in a single graphic

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