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HEALTH IT & QUALITy Railroads, weed, and EmRs
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our Emrs mimic the workflow of clinical care in a
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PSQH 10TH ANNIvERSARy defining Patient Sa
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Culture Change Dana Siegal, director of patient s
Unintended Consequences of Smart Pumps:
chose the wrong concentration because she thought
SMART PUMPS Figure 1. Reli
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Improving Interventional Lab Quality Measures
on manual data entry and was comprised of four sc
RTLS baseline data
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ISMP The probability of confusing one alphanum
Safe Practice Recommendations The characteristics
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