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November/December 2013 Volume 10, Issue 6
HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED
INFECTIONS
How effective is public reporting?
Best Practices in
Blood Management
Biomedical Device
Integration
Brain Science and
Patient Safety Training
Infection Control
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CONTENTS
November/December 2013 Volume 10, Issue 6
Features
24 Healthcare-Associated Infection Reports
By John Govednik, MS; Maryanne McGuckin, Dr. ScED, FSHEA;
Jessica Bunson, MS, MT (ASCP), CIC; David Hyman, MD, JD; and
Bernard S. Black,
32 Integrating Biomedical Devices Across the Enterprise?
Go with the Flow
By Mike Freeman, BSBA
38 Brain Science Provi
November/December 2013
38 10 CONTENTS November/December 2013 Volume
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
NEWS Strategic Radiology Establishes PSO to Impr
Alarm Dangers Top ECRI’s Health Technology Hazard
HEALTH IT & QUALITY Our Tower of Babel By
Unlike the banking example, patients and institut
HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS Analytics Drive Transparen
cost data understand how transpar- ency of health
ISMP Develop Partnerships with Technology and D
a time-out procedure before utilizing a contrast
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES Meeting the Challenges of P
between encounters with the healthcare system.
STAFFING New Nurse Turnover and Patient Safety:
3. Put paper-based staffing systems where the
Healthcare-Associated Infection Reports How d
H ealthcare-associated
STATE-MANDATED HAI REPORTS We asked HAI Coordi
Consumer Feedback Twenty-five states have at least
STATE-MANDATED HAI REPORTS design depended larg
printed news media (45%), Internet (35%) or radio
STATE-MANDATED HAI REPORTS Actionable Steps for
care-Associated Infections, McGuckin & Goldfarb (
Integrating Biomedical Devices Across the
ing workflow alone generates more than 675,000 mes
BIOMEDICAL DEVICE INTEGRATION Our BMDI Team di
BIOMEDICAL DEVICE INTEGRATION the nursing serve
Brain Science Provides New Approach to Patient
the program. SE’s intermittent challenges grabbed
PATIENT SAFETY TRAINING Acceptability of the S
PATIENT SAFETY TRAINING Traditional bolus (AKA
Don’t (Always) Give Blood A Team-Oriented Approa
tients, and others, it is also far from a benign
BLOOD MANAGEMENT BLOOD USE ON THE RISE
travel to an arterial filter that removes any haza
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Infection Control
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION If we stop at han
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION To deliver a cons
NEWS Quality Conundrums Lynn Helmer, MD, MBA, CH
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilizati
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (PSQH) welc
As we move from the legislation to implementation