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Progress Against Antimicrobial Resistance Has Slipped – 29,400 deaths in 2020 with 40% infected in hospital
During the first year of the pandemic, more than 29,400 people died from antimicrobial-resistant infections commonly associated with…
Rethinking Use Of Air-Safety Principles To Reduce Fatal Hospital Errors [full version & best practices]
Health AffairsAndy Pasztor, Adam AndersenAUGUST 26, 2022 Executive Summary by: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.transform health — institute for continuous transformationpatient safety unitAugust…
How Your Hospital Can Make you Sick
Our centers for healing have turned into breeding grounds for dangerous — even deadly — infections. Consumer Reports’ new Ratings of more…
Insights for addressing Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP), based on the US benchmarks (Kaiser, Sutter and VHA)
This is a republication of the paper below, with the title above, focusing in providing insights for the…
Best practices for patient safety improvement — #3 User-Friendly Medical Devices And Technology
This is an excerpt of the paper “Rethinking Use Of Air-Safety Principles To Reduce Fatal Hospital Errors”, with…
Best practices for patient safety improvement — #2 Non-Punitive Reporting
This is an excerpt of the paper “Rethinking Use Of Air-Safety Principles To Reduce Fatal Hospital Errors”, with…
Best practices for patient safety improvement — #1 Non-Punitive Reporting
This is an excerpt of the paper “Rethinking Use Of Air-Safety Principles To Reduce Fatal Hospital Errors”, with…